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PROPERTY REGULATIONS 

OF THE 

U. S. Department of Agriculture 



EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1916 




WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1916 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 



EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1916 



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WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1916 



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April 29, 1916. 

The lionora])lo the Secretary of Agriculture. 

Sir: The Advisory Committee on Finance and Business 
Methods submits a draft of Property Regulations for the 
Department of Agriculture with the recommendation that 
they be approved to take effect on July 1, 191G, superseding 
all prior rules, regulations, orders, and memoranda relating 
to the receiving, handling, and issuing, custody and re- 
sponsibility, recording and accounting for the property of 
the department. These regulations present an outline of 
general principles to be followed by the bureaus, which 
should be authorized to supplement them with such addi- 
tional instructions, not in conflict therewith, as may be 
necessary to carry the principles into effect. The regula- 
tions have been prepared after a most careful study l)y the 
committee of all existing property regulations in this de- 
partment and such regulations as were obtainable from 
oth(!r departments of the Government, of the laws upon 
which such regulations are based, and of such suggestions 
as w(^re made by the various bureaus of the department. 
It is believed that if the regulations are approved, pro- 
mulgated, and properly adnunistered, they will result in 
more systematic methods, better safeguards, and greater 
economy and eOiciency in the receipt, custody, and dis- 
position of Government property in Wm Department of 
Agriculture. 

Respectfully subndtted. 

Leon M. Kstabrook, 

CItairmnn. 

A. ZArroxE, 

W. U. Reese, 

A. Mc('. Ashley, 

W. L. Shuck, 
Advisor}/ Commiitcc on Finance 

and Business Methods. 
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Department of Agriculture, 

Washington, May 2S, 1916. 
Under the authority conferred upon the Secretary of 
Agriculture by law, the following regulations are prescribed 
to govern the methods of receiving, recording, caring for, 
issuing, disposing of, and accounting for Government prop- 
erty in the Department of Agriculture. These regulations 
shall become and be effective on and after July 1, 1910, 
and shall supersede all prior rules, regulations, orders, and 
memoranda in conflict therewith. 

D. F. Houston, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

Page. 

Custody and Accountability 9 

1. Definition of terms 9 

2. Acquisition of property by the department . 9 

3. Receipt of property in a bureau 10 

4. Responsibility for property 10 

5. Classification 10 

6. Bureau records 11 

7. Individual accountability 11 

8. Property lost, stolen, damaged, or de- 

stroyed 12 

9. Sale or other disposition of property in 

general 13 

10. Sale of property specifically authorized by 

law; no action by board of survey re- 
quired 14 

11. Property at inaccessible points 14 

12. Abandonment, sale, or destruction by chief 

of field party 14 

13. Conversion of property to personal use 14 

14. Improvements 15 

15. Storage 15 

16. Property not to he given as payment for 

supplies 15 

17. Unserviceable property to be reported 15 

18. Condemnation of property having no sale 

value 16 

19. Only unserviceable articles to be con- 

demned 16 

20. Who are authorized to condemn property. . 16 

21. Use of condemned articles in preservation 

and repair 16 

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Custody and Accountability — Continued. Page. 

22. Personal possession of condemned prop- 

erty 16 

23. Disposition of property ordered destroyed. . 16 

24. Employees who may not purchase con- 

demned property 17 

25. Transfers of property from one l:>ureau to 

another in Washington 17 

26. Transfers of property from one field station 

to another 17 

27 . Bureau property inspection 17 

28. Inspection of records and property of the 

supply division of the department 18 

29. Identiiication of property 18 

30. Misuse of property 18 

31. Purchase from Government employees 

prohil)ited 19 

32. Exhibits at expositions 19 

33. Camera hoxes, photograpliic lenses, and 

shutters 19 

31. Return of books and periodicals to library. . 20 

Invoices and Receipts 21 

35. Invoices and receipts, when made 21 

36. Class to be indicated 21 

37. Expendal:)le property, invoices and re- 

ceipts therefor 21 

38. Nonexpendable property, invoices and re- 

ceipts therefor. 21 

39. Verification of invoices 21 

40. Invoices and receipts to l^e attached to 

property returns , 21 

41. Property taken up without invoice 22 

42. Duplicate, in voices and receipts for prop- 

erty transferred 22 

43. Field purchases, invoice of 22 



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Page. 

Requisition for Supplies and Equipment 23 

44. Requisition for supplies and equipment 23 

45. Purchase order, notification of placing 23 

Property Returns 23 

46. Annual return of nonexpendable property. 23 

47. Returns of property at substations 24 

48. Nonexpendable property not to be dropped 

from returns 24 

49. Articles of property of a i:>ersonal nature. . . 24 

50. Shortage 24 

51. Credit for property abandoned, sold, or 

destroyed at a field station 24 

52. Count of property to be made 25 

53. Errors 25 

54. Property returns, authorizations affecting, 

filed with 25 

55. Action upon discontinuance of station 25 

56. Ti'ansfer at a field station during continued 

absence 26 

57. Accountability, when closed 26 

58. Action on death of official in charge 26 

59. Final return of property 26 

60. Final settlement 27 

Sale or Exchange of Property Autliorized by 

Law 27 

61. Typewriters, duplicating machines, scien- 

tific apparatus, etc 27 

62. Animals and animal products 27 

63. Surplus documents 28 

64. Exchange of books and periodicals of 

library 28 

65. Prints, lantern slides, transparencies, blue 

prints, and forest maps 28 

66. Pathological and zoological specimens 28 

67. Maps and pul)lications of the Weather 

Bureau. 28 



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Page. 
Sale or Exchange of Property Authorized by 

Law — Continued . 

68. Sale of samples of pure sugar, naval stores, 

microscopical specimens, etc 28 

69. Sale of card index of experiment station 

literature 29 

70. Sale of official cotton standards 29 

Freight, Express, and Parcel Post 29 

71. Bills of lading 29 

72. Methods of shipment 29 

73. Packing and marking of shipments 30 

74. Freight shipments between employees in 

the field 31 

75. Shipments by quartermaster 31 

76. Shipments from dealers 31 

77. Shipments to Washington, D. C 31 

78. Shipments via the Atlantic Ocean 32 

79. Shipments to Porto Rico 32 

80. Record of shipments 32 

81. Instructions to be observed 32 

82. Report of delayed shipments 32 

83. Delivery of property direct to field stations . 33 

84. Cash payments not to be made on shipments 

over land-grant or bond-aided railroads . . 33 

85. Transfer of household effects and other 

personal property 33 

86. Shipment by express 33 

87. Express shipments to and from Washington, 

D.C 33 

88. Valuation of express shipments , . 34 

89. Furnishing penalty envelopes or labels to 

merchants or others for shipping property 

prohibited 34 

Appendix A. — Provisions of law affecting the prop- 
erty accountability of the Department of Agri- 
culture 35 

Appendix B. — List of expendable and nonexpend- 
able property 59 

Index to Property Regulations 131 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 
CUSTODY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. 

1. Definition of Terms. — For the purpose of these 
regulations the following terms shall be construed, respec- 
tively, to mean: 

(a) The Department: The United States Department 
of Agriculture. 

(6) The Secretary: The Secretary or the Acting Secre- 
tary of Agriculture. 

(c) Bureau: Any bureau, service, independent divi- 
sion, independent office, or independent committee, in- 
cluding the library of the United States Department of 
Agricultm'e, the office of the Solicitor, and the Office of 
Farm Management. The remaining subdivisions of the 
office of the Secretary, unless otherwise directed by the 
Secretary from time to time, together will constitute a 
separate independent office. 

(d) Chief of bureau: The administrative head of any 
bm-eau, service, independent division, independent office, 
or independent committee, or of the library of the United 
States Department of Agriculture. 

(e) Employee: Any officer or employee of the depart- 
ment. 

(/) Property clerk: Any employee authorized by the 
chief of bureau to keep property records, 

(g) Substation: Any field station or field party. 

(h) Property retm-n or inventory: A list or statement of 
all property on hand by actual count. 

2. Acquisition of Property by the Department. — 
Subject to the provisions of law, these regulations, and the 
fiscal and administrative regulations of the department, 

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10 TROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

property may be acquired (1) by purchase upon reqilisi- 
tion or contract or, in the field, under letters of authoriza- 
tion; (2) by manufacture within the department; and (3) 
by transfer or purchase from another department or estab- 
lishment of the Government. Each purchase or acquisi- 
tion by manufacture within the department shall be 
evidenced by a written requisition, contract, shop request, 
or memorandum, approved by the chief of the bureau or 
an employee duly authorized by the chief of the bureau 
for which the article was purchased or manufactured. 
Transfers or purchases from another department or Gov- 
ernment establishment shall be evidenced by copies of 
the transfer records approved by the Secretary. Imme- 
diately upon the delivery to a bureau of an article which 
has been acquired by purchase, manufacture, or transfer, 
the fact that the article has been received shall be reported 
to the property clerk who shall see that a record of the 
article is made without delay on the property returns of 
the Inireau. 

3. Receipt of Property in a Bureau. — In each bureau 
a,n employee or employees shall be designated by the 
chief of bureau to receive, receipt for, and take charge of 
all newly acquired property wliich may be delivered to 
the bureau. 

4. Responsibility for Property. — Every employee 
entrusted with property or supplies of the department will 
be held strictly responsible for the use, care, ])reservation, 
and disposition thereof, until relieved of such responsi- 
Ijility in accordance with these regulations. 

5. Classification. — The department property will be 
grouped, according to the manner of its final disposition, 
into two general classes, viz: 

(1) Expe]idal)le property, comprising (a) supplies that 
are destroyed or consumed by use, such as stationery and 
fuel, (6) su])plies that are soon worn out by use, such as 
mops and brushes, and (c) all material or parts used in 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 11 

construction or repair work, such as bricks, nails, lumber, 
and machine ])arts. 

(2) Nonexpendable property, comprising (o) property of 
a permanent character, such as instruments and furniture, 
and (6) articles that are worn out by use, but slowly, such 
as shears and carpets. 

(See Appendix B for list of expendable and nonexpend- 
able property.) 

6. Bureau Records. — Complete and accurate records 
shall be kept by property clerks of all department pro]^- 
erty in each bureau. The records of nonexpendable prop- 
erty shall show with respect to each article in the bureau 
and each article received by requisition or by field pur- 
chase under letter of authorization, the number and cost, 
and either where it is located or the name of the person in 
whose possession it is. The records of expendable i:)rop- 
erty shall show the number and cost of articles received 
and on hand in the storeroom and the number and cost 
of articles issued to an official or employee. The records 
of both expendable and nonexpendable property will be 
supported by receipts of the employees to whom articles 
have been issued. 

7. Individual Accountability. — Each employee en- 
trusted with any nonexpendable property shall be re- 
quired to receipt, and, from time to time, account there- 
for. Each employee entrusted with any exj^endable prop- 
erty, when the chief of the bureau shall so direct, shall 
likewise be required to receipt and, from time to time, 
account therefor. Having receipted for an article an em- 
ployee may be relieved of responsibility — (1) by delivery 
of the article to the bureau property clerk and taking a 
receipt therefor; (2) when authorized by the chief of the 
bureau, by delivery of the article to another employee of 
the bureau and taking liis rec'eii>t therefor; (3) by present- 
ing a certificate approved by the chief of the bureau, or 
by an emi^loyee authorized by the cliief of the bureau to 



12 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

approve such certificates, that the article has been con- 
sumed in use, lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed; (4) by 
payment to the disbursing clerk or appropriate fiscal agent 
of the value of the article at that time as determined by 
the chief of the bureau or other employee designated by 
him; (5) by sale or other disposition by a board of survey 
(see paragraph 9 of these regulations) ; or (G) by abandon- 
ment (see paragraph 12 of these regulations). 

No receipt should l^e signed until the list of articles to 
be receipted for has been verified and the articles have 
been delivered to, or placed at the disposal of, the em- 
ployee giving the receipt. 

8. Property Lost, Stolen, Damaged, or De- 
stroyed. — Whenever any property either expendable 
or nonexpendable is lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed, 
the employee who had custody of the property at the time 
will forward immediately to the chief of bureau, through 
the employee against whom the property is charged on the 
property records, a certificate showing (1) a list of the 
articles, (2) the circumstances attending their loss, damage, 
or destruction, (3) whether his fault or neglect or that of 
any employee was involved, and (4) if the property was 
lost or stolen, the action taken to recover the property. 
Wlien the value of the property exceeds $10 the certificate 
shall be sworn to before an officer authorized by the admin- 
istrative regulations to administer oaths of office. 

If the certificate upon examination is found to be satis- 
factory, the chief of bureau will authorize the dropping of 
the property from the property records; otherwise, he will 
take steps to recover the value of the property from the 
employee responsible, and promptly transmit any moneys 
which may be collected to the disbursing clerk, or appro- 
priate fiscal agent, for deposit in the Treasury. If the 
amount of the loss is considerable, and it appears that the 
property may have been lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 13 

through the fault, neglect, or misconduct of an employee, 
a board of survey may be appointed by the Secretary, upon 
recommendation of the cliief of bureau, to determine the 
responsibility, and make recommendation to the Secretary 
as to what action should be taken by the department in 
the matter. 

9. Sale or Other Disposition of Property in Gen- 
eral.— Articles for which the department has no further 
use and articles which have become unserviceable will be 
submitted to a board of survey for sale or other disposition. 
In WasMngton, such articles will be submitted to the de- 
partment board of survey. For action concerning such 
articles outside of Washington special boards of survey will 
be appointed upon recommendation of the chief of bureau. 
Recommendations for the appointment of special boards 
of survey shall be supported by descriptions of the articles 
to be disposed of, together with statements of the specific 
reasons therefor. 

Wlien any board of survey has decided that articles shall 
be sold, the sale will be advertised by notifying interested 
parties by letter, circular, or poster. No expense will be 
allowed for advertising in newspapers except by specific 
written authority of the Secretary. Wlien property has 
been sold the board of survey will pay all expenses, take 
receipts therefor, and remit the net proceeds by postal 
money order, bank draft, or cash to the disbursing clerk 
of the department or appropriate fiscal agent, to be de- 
posited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous 
receipts. No department property shall be disposed of by 
private sale unless the Secretary shall so direct. 

It shall be the duty of each board of survey to see to the 
destruction of all property which it has condemned and 
ordered to be destroyed . At least one member of the board 
shall be present when the property is destroyed, and when 
proper destruction has been effected, shall make and sub- 
mit to the Secretary a certificate to that effect. 



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The transfer of property in the field from one branch of 
a bnreau to another shall be made only npon the approval 
of the chief of bnreau. 

The transfer of property in the field from one bnreau to 
another shall be made only upon the approval of the 
Secretary. 

The sale of property in tlie field by one bureau to another 
is prohibited. (See Administrative Regulations.) 

10. Sale of Property Specifically Authorized by 
Law; No Action by Board of Survey Required. — 
Photo prints, lantern slides, index cards, maps, farm 
products, pathologicah and zoological specimens, official 
cotton standards, samples of pure sugars, naval stores, 
microscopical specimens, animals and animal products, 
and other articles, the sale of which is specifically author- 
ized by law, need not be submitted to a board of survey. 

11. Property at Inaccessible Points. — An em- 
ployee, rosponsil^le for property which has become totally 
unserAicea])]e or worthless at a place where it would bo 
imprai'ticalile for a board of survey to pass upon it, must 
refer the facts to the chief of bureau, who, if he is satisfied 
with the report, may, with the prior approval of the 
Secretary, authorize and direct the destruction of the 
property and appropriate adjustment of the property 
retm-ns. 

12. Abandonment, Sale, or Destruction by Chief 
of Field Party. — Inexpensive camp equipment in pos- 
session of field parties may be abandoned, sold, or de- 
stroyed by the chief of party when it is impracticable 
to return it for condemnation as herein prescribed. An 
explicit statement of the date, cause, and location of an 
abandonment or sale as herein provided for must be 
forwarded immediately to the chief of bureau. 

13. Conversion of Property to Personal Use.— If 
any article of department property is converted to his own 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE, 1910. 15 

use by an employee of the department, the chief of bureau 
will immediately take steps to recover the property or 
its value from the employee. Any moneys which may 
be so recovered shall be promptly transmitted to the dis- 
bursing clerk, or appropriate fiscal agent, for deposit in 
the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts. Pend- 
ing such recovery, the chief of bureau should request the 
disbm'sing clerk, or appropriate fiscal agent, to withhold 
any moneys due or which may become due to the employee 
involved, and should also report the circumstances of the 
case to the Secretary for proper disciplinary or other 
action. 

14. Improvements. — Excepting lands acquired for 
forest reserves, all lands, biuldings, telegraph hues, tele- 
phone lines, cables, fences, and other improvements of a 
permanent character constructed or purchased by the de- 
partment shall be accounted for on property returns. 

15. Storage. — Property issued to employees in charge 
of field parties which is no longer needed and wliich can 
not be advantageously returned to the property clerk may 
be placed in storage, when authority therefor is obtained 
in advance from the chief of bureau. Storage fees may 
be paid in cash by the employee charged with the property 
and the receipt of the storage company submitted with his 
reimbursement account, or payment may be made to the 
storage company on Form 5 voucher. 

16. Property not to be Given as Payment for 
Snpplies.— Unless specifically authorized by law, no 
property of the department shall be given or exchanged 
for any supplies or work. (See paragraphs 61, 62, 63, 
and 64 of these regulations.) 

17. Unserviceable Property to be Reported. — 
Every employee shall report periodically to the chief of his 
bureau all articles of nonexpendable property for which 
he is responsible, which have been broken, worn out, or 
otherwise rendered unfit for further use, for such action as 



16 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

the chief of bureau may direct, in accordance with para- 
graphs 8 and 9 of these regulations. 

18. Condemnation of Property having no Sale 
Value. — Nonexpendable property worn out or damaged 
beyond repair which has no sale value will be retained 
until it can be inspected and disposed of in accordance 
with these regulations. 

19. Only Unserviceable Articles to be Con- 
demned. — Department property, if serviceable, shall not 
be reported as unserviceable, nor condemned merely be- 
cause worn or shabby in appearance. 

20. Who are Authorized to Condemn Property. — 
Boards of survey, appointed by the Secretary, may in- 
spect, condemn, sell, or destroy unserviceable property. 

21. Use of Condemned Articles in Preservation 
and Repair. — Parts of machines and other articles which 
have become unserviceable, or for which the department 
has no further use in their entireties, may, in the discretion 
of boards of survey, be retained for use in repair, construc- 
tion work, or for other departmental purposes. In such 
case the articles will be dropped from the property re- 
turns, and the parts shall be taken up as expendable 
property on the records of the bureau to which they are 
allotted by the board of survey. 

22. Personal Possession of Condemned Prop- 
erty. — No employee shall appropriate to his own use any 
article of department property which has been ordered 
destroyed. 

23. Disposition of Property Ordered Destroyed. — 
All articles ordered destroyed by a board of survey shall 
be separated into two classes, viz, articles that can and 
articles that can not be destroyed by burning. Prop- 
erty of the former class shall be immediately burned in 
the presence of a member of the board of survey; prop- 
erty of the latter class shall be immediately broken up, 
carried off to a public dumping place, and there depos- 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 17 

ited. In either case a certificate shall be filed showing 
that proper destruction has been effected. 

24. Employees Who May Not Purchase Con- 
demned Property. — Public property which has been 
condemned and is offered for sale by authority of the de- 
partment shall not be purchased, either directly or indi- 
rectly, by (a) any employee formerly accountable for the 
property, (b) any employee formerly using the property, 
(c) any employee connected in any way with the action 
which resulted in condemnation, or (d) any employee 
connected in any way with the condemnation or sale of the 
property. 

25. Transfers of Property from One Bureau to 
Another in Waslrington.— Permanent transfers of 
property from one bureau to another in Wasliington shall 
be made only through the central supply division of the 
department, and turn-in papers in triplicate shall be 
ex,ecuted. Such papers shall contain an adequate de- 
scription of the property transferred, and the copy for the 
office of the Secretary shall be detached by the bureau 
executing same and forwarded directly to that office. 
The other two copies shall accompany tlie transferred 
property to the supply division. The sale of property 
by one bureau to another is ])roliibited. 

26. Transfers of Property from One Field Station 
to Another. — Property shall not be transferred from one 
field station to another in the same bureau without specific 
authority from the chief of bureau, and when such authority 
is obtained the property shall be invoiced and receipted 
for. The chief of biu-eau, in his discretion, may direct 
such transfers without action by a board of survey. 

27. Bureau Property Inspection.— An inspection of 
bm*eau property in Washington, D. C, may be made an- 
nually, or, in the discretion of the chief of bureau, at more 
frequent intervals, by an employee designated by the 
chief of bureau. When the inspection is made the bureaii 

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property clerk or other employee designated by the chief 
of bureau shall prepare and submit to the inspector a 
property return in duplicate, in the manner prescribed for 
annual property returns. The inspector shall then check 
the property on hand against the return, note changes 
or discrepancies on both copies of the return, and report 
the fact to the chief of bureau . The inspector shall forward 
the original property return with his report to the chief of 
bureau, and transmit the duplicate return to the propertj^ 
clerk. 

General inspection of property in the field shall be pro- 
vided for by bm-eau chiefs as occasion may require. 

An annual inspection of the property records of the 
bureaus shall also be made by the office of inspection of the 
office of the Secretary. 

28. Inspection of Records and Property of the 
Supply Division of the Dopartnient.— Quarterly audits 
of the books, records, and j^roperty in the custody of the 
supply division of the department shall be made by the 
office of inspection. That office shall also make a careful 
inspection of the property accountability records of that 
division, and of the records of department property trans- 
ferred by the several ])ureaus of the department to the 
supply di\dsion. Reports of the results of the quarterly 
audits and inspections shall ho submitted to the Secretary. 
(See Administrative Regidations.) 

29. Identification of Property. — When practicable, 
nonexpendable propert}- shall be marked for purposes of 
identification or so as to indicate o^mership by the depart- 
ment. All apparatus and eqidpment bearing factory or 
other trade numbers shall be recorded by such numbers 
as well as by descri]>tion. 

30. Misuse of Property. — No employee shall use, or 
permit any other person to use, any department property 
for any purpose except such as is necessary for the per- 
formance of the work of the department. 



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31. Purchase from Government Employees Pro- 
hibited. — No supplies or property for the use of the de- 
partment shall be purchased from any of its employees 
A^-ithout the approval of the Secretary. 

32. Exhibits at Expositions. — All property, either 
expendable or nonexpendable, displayed at expositions, 
fairs, and similar exhibitions, shall be accounted for in 
accordance with these regulations. Unless specifically 
authorized by law no material shall be shipped until the 
management of the exposition, fair, or exhibition shall 
have executed a satisfactory contract and bond to defray 
expenses incident to the packing, shipping, installation, 
repacking, and return to the department of the material. 
No such bond shall be accepted imtil approved by the 
Solicitor. Each bureau furnisliing material for any such 
exhibition shall turn it over to the special agent of exhibits 
by invoice and take his receipt therefor. Upon the return 
of the material, the special agent of exhibits shall be 
accountable therefor until it has been delivered to, and 
receipted for, by the bureau to which it belongs. Exhibit 
material fabricated under the direction of the special 
agent on exhibits shall be taken up by him on liis property 
inventory and accounted for under these regidations. 

WTien no expense to the department is involved exhibit 
material of small value may, in the discretion of the chief 
of bureau, and upon compliance with such restrictions as 
he may impose, be loaned without requiring a contract 
and bond and without reference to the special agent of 
exhibits. (See Administrative Regulations.) 

33. Camera Boxes, Photographic Lenses, and 
Shutters. — Camera boxes and photographic lenses shall 
be accounted for as separate items of nonexpendable 
property. Cameras turned in for action by a board of 
survey, or transferred from one employee or office to 



20 PEOPEETY EEGULATIONS, 

another, shall be described in the accompanying papers 
so as to indicate clearly whether a camera box alone or 
both a box and lens are transferred. Detachable shutters 
will also be accounted for separately. 

34. Return of Books and Periodicals to Library. — 
Employees in Washington, D. C, having in their posses- 
sion any books or periodicals belonging to or borrowed 
through the department library or any of its branches, 
who may leave the city for periods of one week or more, 
shall return the books or periodicals, or, if they are needed 
for general official use, shall place them in the care of 
some one who will be able to return them when called for 
by the library. In the latter case the library shall be 
notified in advance of the arrangement and informed of 
the name of the person who will have the care of the 
books or periodicals. 

Books or periodicals belonging to or borrowed through 
the department library or any of its branches shall not 
under any circumstances be kept in locked desks, left at 
home, or kept in any place where they will not be readily 
accessible for department use. No books or periodicals 
belonging to or borrowed through the department library 
or any of its branches shall be taken out of the city withoujfc 
first obtaining the permission of the department librarian. 

The department librarian and any bureau librarian 
shall report to the chief of bureau the name of any em- 
ployee of his bureau who fails to return or to account in a 
satisfactory manner for books withdrawn; and upon 
receipt of such notice the chief of bureau shall imme- 
diately take steps to recover the books or periodicals or 
the value thereof. In the event of the failure of an em- 
ployee to return the books or periodicals, or to pay the 
value thereof promptly upon demand, the chief of bureau 
shall report the matter to the Secretary. (See Admi.nis- 
trative Regulations.) 



U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 21 

INVOICES AND RECEIPTS. 

35. Invoices and Receipts, When Made. — All de- 
partment property shipped shall l^e invoiced not more 
than three days after shipment, and all department prop- 
erty received shall be receipted for as soon as received. 

36. Class to be Indicated. — In making receipts and 
invoices the class (expendable or nonexpendable) to 
which each article belongs shall be indicated by the 
property clerk, according to the standard lists annexed 
in these regulations as Appendix B. In any case when 
the classification of an article of property can not be 
determined from the standard lists, the question shall be 
referred through the proper channels to the office of the 
Secretary for decision. 

37. Expendable Property, Invoices and Receipts 
Therefor.— Expendable property shall be invoiced and 
receipted for, but will not l)e taken up or accounted for 
on the annual return of property. Expendable property 
purchased in the field will be invoiced as provided in 
paragraph 43 of these regulations. 

38. Nonexpendable Property, Invoices and Re- 
ceipts Therefor. — Nonexpendable property shall be 
invoiced and receipted for and shall be taken up and 
accounted for on property returns. 

39. Verification of Invoices. — Property owned by 
the department which has been invoiced shall not be 
receipted for until the full amount is actually received 
and the invoice verified or corrected. Each invoice shall 
be carefully compared with the property received, and if 
found correct the receipt will be completed, compared 
with the invoice, and promptly returned. 

40. Invoices and Receipts to be Attached to Prop- 
erty Returns. — Invoices of property owned by the de- 
partment shall be filed by the consignee and receipts shall 
be filed by consignors, with their retained property returns 



22 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

as authority for taking up or dropping property from the 
property records. 

41. Property Taken up Without Invoice. — All non- 
expendal)le property received will be taken up on the 
return, whether invoice has been received or not. If the 
invoice has not l>een received that fact shall be reported 
to the bureau by letter, and a footnote that the property 
was taken up without invoice will be entered on the 
return. 

42. Duplicate Invoices and Receipts for Property 
Transferred. — WTien property is transferred from one 
statiou or oflice to another, invoices and receipts shall be 
made out in duplicate by an employee at the station or 
office from which the property is transferred and mailed 
to the employee in charge of the station or office to which 
the property is transferred. If upon delivery the prop- 
erty is found to agree with the invoice, the employee in 
charge of the station or office receiving the property shall 
sign the receipt in duplicate and return l)oth copies to 
Ihe sondor. One copy of the receipt shall be immediately 
forwai'ded to the chief of l)ureau by the employee in charge 
of the station or office from which the property is trans- 
feri'cd; and the duplicate copy of the invoice shall be 
immediately forwarded to the chief of ])ureau by the 
employee in charge of the station or office to which the 
property is transferred and wliich takes up the property 
on its ])roperty retui'ns. 

48. Field Purchases, Invoice of. — Property purchased 
by an employee in the field shall be invoiced to him by 
tlie chief of bureau, or his authorized representative, 
upon receipt of the account for settlement or other notifi- 
cation of purchase. If the chief of bureau shall so direct, 
the invoice itself may be prepared by the purchasing 
employee and forwaixled with the account for signature 



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REQUISITION FOR SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT. 

44. Requisition for Supplies and Equipment.— 

Supplies and equipment used generally and ordinarily 
carried in stock may be procured upon requisition on the 
property clerk, which requisition should be made quar- 
terly, or semiannually, as far as practicable. Officers in 
charge of field stations, and employees, will make requisi- 
tions for only such equipment, stationery, office supplies, 
and printed forms as may be required in their work. 
Such requisitions should be made as complete as possible, 
and special requisitions should be avoided, since this will 
facilitate the economical and efficient handling of the work; 
however, special requisitions may^be submitted in cases 
of emergency. A copy of the requisition will be retained 
by the ordering officer for checking the articles when re- 
ceived from the property clerk. 

45. Purcliase Order, Notification of Placing.— In all 
cases when articles of property for which request is made 
are not in stock, requisitioners should be so advised by 
the purchasing agent and informed that their requests have 
received attention. This action, in the absence of other 
notice, should be taken at the time an order for the articles 
is placed with the dealer, and should include, for future 
reference purposes, ad\'ice as to the serial number of the 
purchase order. 

PROPERTY RETURNS. 

46. Annual Return of Nonexpendable Property. — 

A property return shall be prepared annually, in duplicate, 
by every employee who is accountable for nonexpendable 
property. On this return shall be entered the articles on 
hand at the time of the last return, the articles re- 
ceived by transfer or purchase since the last return, 
the articles disposed of by transfer, loss, or sale, and the 
balance on hand on the date of the return. By footnote 



24 PROPEKTY REGULATIONS. 

or note in a "Remarks " column proper explanation should 
be made in connection with all entries of articles disposed 
of during the year. One copy of the report shall be re- 
tained by the employee accountable for the property, and 
the other sliiill be forwarded to the chief of his bureau for 
administrative examination, adjustment, and file. 

47. Returns of Property at Substations.— The 
official in charge of the property of a station shall be 
responsible for all nonexpendable property at field sub- 
stations under his supervision. He shall obtain and keep 
on file in his office memorandum receipts for all non- 
expendable property issued to field substations either by 
himself or any other authorized official of the bureau, and, 
when necessary, shall obtain annual returns of such 
property. 

48. Nonexpendable Property Not to be Dropped 
from Returns.— No nonexpendable property shall be 
dropped from a property return otherwise than as provided 
in these regulations. 

49. Articles of Property of a Personal Nature.— 
Bureaus of the department may purchase out of available 
appropriations and carry in stock for use of employees 
engaged in extraordinary lines of work, requiring special 
equipment, articles of a personal nature which are not 
ordinarily worn by employees when off duty. (See Fis- 
cal Regulations.) 

50. Shortage. — No employee authorized to receive 
property shall receipt for property until the same shall 
have been actually received, turned over, or transferred 
by memorandum receipts. A report of any shortage shall 
be made, and if practicable, evidence showing the respon- 
sibility for such shortage shall be furnished. 

51. Credit for Property Abandoned, Sold, or De- 
stroyed at a Field Station.— Credit shall be given in 
the property records for property abandoned, sold, or 
destroyed at a field station by a board of survey or an 



V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 25 

oflficial in charge (see paragraphs 9 and 12 of these regula- 
tions) as soon as the report of the board of survey or the 
official in charge has been received, examined, and ap- 
proved. If advice of such credit is not received within a 
reasonable time the fact shall be reported to the bureau. 

52. Count of Property to be Made. — An actual count 
of nonexpendable property on hand shall be made at the 
time of rendering annual returns, and any excess shall be 
taken up. Any shortage shall be reported to the bureau 
for appropriate action. 

53. Errors. — Errors detected in property returns shall 
be immediately brought to the attention of the employee 
responsible. If the adjustment of the error discloses a 
shortage, the employee responsible for the property will 
be held accountable therefor. 

54. Property Returns, Authorizations Affecting, 
Filed with.— Written evidence of authority for taking up 
property, except that invoiced from the bureau, and writ- 
ten evidence of authority for dropping property, except 
that receipted for by the bureau, during each year, shall 
be forwarded with the returns. Each record of such 
authority should be numbered or lettered, and proper 
reference thereto should be entered on the return. Copies 
of the evidence submitted in accordance with this regu- 
lation should be made and filed with the return retained 
by the emploj^ee submitting Ihe evidence. 

55. Action upon Discontinuance of Station. — Upon 
receipt of notice of discontinuance of a station, the official 
in charge, or other person designated by the chief of bu- 
reau, shall immediately prepare and transmit to the bureau 
a list of all property on hand, indicating what portion of 
the property is worth the cost of transportation to the 
nearest station where it may be used; what is not worth 
the cost of transportation but can probably be sold at 
auction; and what is not worth the cost of transportation 
and can not be sold at auction. The chief of bureau shall 



26 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

then issue instructions for the shipment of so much of the 
property as is worth the cost of transportation, and recom- 
mend to the Secretary the appointment of a board of 
survey to sell or dispose of the remainder of the property. 
After instructions to dispose of property on the discon- 
tinuance of a station have been complied with, a final 
report shall be made to the bureau shomng the disposition 
made of each article, with a certificate showing what 
articles have been destroyed. 

56. Transfer at a Field Station During Continued 
Absence. — If an employee accountable for property is to 
be absent temporarily from a field station for more than 30 
days, he shall transfer the property to another employee 
and take his receipts therefor, but no return or inventory 
need be forwarded to the bureau. Upon the return to the 
station of such an employee and retransfer of the property 
to liim he sliall deliver the receipts to the employee who 
signed them. 

57. Accountability, When Closed.— Until a final re- 
turn has been duly rendered, examined, and approved no 
employee accountalole for property sliiill be relieved of re- 
sponsibility therefor. 

58. Action on Death of Official in Charge. — Upon 
the death or the disappearance of an official responsible for 
property the first assistant or other person designated by 
the chief of bureau to take charge shall prepare in dupli- 
cate an inventory of all property and supplies. One copy 
of the inventory shall be forwarded to the bureau for 
examination and appropriate action. The duplicate copy 
shall be retained at the station as a basis for futm'e property 
returns. 

59. Final Return of Property. — An employee whose 
status has been changed by transfer, resignation, or 
removal shall not be relieved of his responsibility for 
nonexpendable property charged to him until he has made 
a final return satisfactorilv accounting therefor. Before 



U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 IG. 27 

such final report is approved the property shall be carefully 
examined and a note of its condition shall be made on the 
return by the official assuming charge thereof, who shall, 
if the circumstances warrant, make special written report 
to the chief of bureau of all damage not occasioned by 
ordinary wear and tear. 

60. Final Settlement.— Final payment for salary or 
reimbursement shall not be made to employees granted 
leave without pay, or furloughed for extended periods, or 
separated from the department by resignation or other- 
wise, who have been in any way responsible for depart- 
ment property, until evidence shall have been furnished 
that it has been properly accounted for. (See Fiscal 
Regulations.) 

SALE OR EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY AUTHORIZED 
BY LAW. 

61. Typewriters, Duplicating Machines, Scientific 
Apparatus, Etc. — Typewriters, computing, addressing, 
or duplicating machines, and general scientific apparatus 
or laboratory equipment may be exchanged in part pay- 
ment for new machines, apparatus, or laboratory equip- 
ment of the same class, and when so exchanged the old 
articles exchanged shall be dropped from the property 
return and the new articles purchased shall be taken up 
on the return. (See Administrative Regulations.) 

62. Animals and Animal Products.— ^Such animals 
and animal products as cease to be needed in the work of 
the department may be sold in the open market or ex- 
changed for other live stock, and all moneys received from 
the sale of such animals or animal products or as a bonus 
in the exchange of the same shall be deposited in the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Animals or animal 
products required by these regulations to be accounted for 
as nonexpendable property when sold or exchanged shall 
he dropped from the property return. Live stock secured 



28 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

in exchange, if classified as nonexpendable property (see 
Appendix B), shall be taken up on property returns. 

63. Surplus Documents.— Wlien approved by the 
Secretary surplus public documents may be exchanged for 
such other documents and books as may be required when 
same can be done to the advantage of the public service. 

64. Exchange of Books and Periodicals of Library. — 
Books and periodicals of the library not needed for per- 
manent use may be exchanged for other books and period- 
icals. In every instance appropriate adjustment of prop- 
erty returns will be made. 

65. Prints, Lantern Slides, Transparencies, Blue 
Prints, and Forest Maps. — Prints, lantern slides, trans- 
parencies, blue prints, and forest maps may, upon appli- 
cation, be furnished from negatives in the possession of 
the department, at a price to cover the cost plus 10 per 
cent additional, and the money derived from such sales 
shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 

66. Pathological and Zoological Specimens. — Such 
pathological and zoological specimens as may be deemed 
to be of scientific or educational value to scientists or others 
engaged in the work of hygiene and sanitation may be sold 
at cost to applicants, and the moneys derived from such 
sale shall be deposited in the Treasury as -miscellaneous 
receipts. 

67. Maps and Publications of the Weather Bu- 
reau. — Surplus maps and publications of the Weather 
Bureau may be sold, and the money derived from such 
sales shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous 
receipts. 

68. Sale of Samples of Pure Sugar, Naval Stores, 
Microscopical Specimens, Etc. — Samples of pure sugar, 
naval stores, microscopical specimens, and other products 
may be furnished upon application, to State and municipal 
officers, educational institutions, and other parties, and 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE, 1916. 29 

charged for at a price to cover the cost thereof, such price 
to be determined and established by the Secretary, and 
the money received from such sales shall be deposited in 
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 

69. Sale of Card Index of Experiment Station 
Literature. — Copies of the card index of experiment sta- 
tion literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Sta- 
tions (States Relations Service) may be furnished to such 
institutions or individuals as may care to buy them and 
charged for at a price to cover the additional expense in- 
volved in the preparation of these copies, and the money 
received from such sales shall be deposited in the Treasury 
as miscellaneous receipts. 

70. Sale of Official Cotton Standards.— Practical 
forms of the official cotton standards of the United States 
may be furnished to any person, subject to the conditions 
of, and upon compliance with, the Rules and Regulations 
of the Secretary of Agriculture under the United States 
cotton futures act. Moneys received from the sale of such 
purchased forms shall be turned into the Treasury as mis- 
cellaneous receipts. 

FREIGHT, EXPRESS, AND PARCEL POST. 

71. Bills of Lading. — Shipments of property by freight 
shall be in strict accordance with paragraphs 55 to 60, in- 
clusive, of the fiscal regulations. When department bills 
of lading are used, the employee making the shipment shall 
date and sign the shipping order, and after obtaining the 
receipt of the transportation company to the bill of lading 
and to the memorandum bill of lading, shall mail the bill 
of lading to the consignee and the memorandum bill to the 
chief of bureau or other employee to be designated by the 
chief of bureau. The shipping order shall be delivered 
to the transportation company. 

72. Methods of Shipment. — ^Whenever practicable, 
employees shall send supplies and small articles of prop- 



30 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

erty by mail under frank or parcel post, subject to the 
provisions of the postal regulations. Large shipments 
shall be made on departmental bills of lading by freight, 
but may be made by express when necessary. Shipments 
should not be prepaid except when the transportation 
company is engaged in local business only and refuses to 
accept shipment on departmental bill of lading. Ship- 
ments on bills of lading to points remote from railroads, 
but reached by stage lines with which express companies 
have no connections, will be made to the nearest and most 
convenient station from which, by previoiie arrangement, 
the shipment will be forwarded to destination. Direc- 
tions for forwarding such shipments to destination shall 
be noted on the bill of lading and on the packages. In 
such cases the foi'warding charges only should be paid by 
the consignee, who shall take a receipt showing rate and 
weight and submit the receipt with the voucher in which 
reimbursement is claimed for the charges. In all cases 
when shipments are marked "Prepaid in full to destina- 
tion" and payment of transportation charges is demanded 
of the consignee, payment thereof should not be made 
until the consignee has ascertained by communication 
with the consignor that the charges were not in fact pre- 
paid to destination. 

73. Packing and Marking of Shipments. — Goods 
for shipment, whether l)y express or by ordinary freight, 
should be securely packed, and all packages should be 
plainly marked with the name and address of the con- 
signee, and in addition thereto the words, "Property of 
the (name of bureau), U. S. Department of Agriculture." 
Shipments destined to Washington, D. C, should be ad- 
dressed to the "Bureau of , U. S. Department of 

Agriculture," and not to individuals. Proper shipping 
labels will be furnished by bureaus upon request. (See 
Fiscal Regulations.) 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICtTLTUEE, 19 IH. 31 

74. Freight Shipments Between Employees in the 
Field. — Whenever practicable, shipments of freight from 
one employee in the field to another employee in the field 
must be made on the regular department bill of lading, 
which will be furnished by the chief of bureau or ofhcial 
in charge of a field station on request, (See Fiscal Regu- 
lations.) 

75. Shipments by Quartermaster.— WTien in special 
cases a freight sliipment is to bo made by a quartermaster, 
United States Army, the goods will be packed and labeled, 
as provided for in these regulations, but shipment mil 
not be made until after the official in charge has been 
communicated with by an officer or agent of the Quarter- 
master's Department. In such cases both the bill of 
lading and memorandum bill issued by the quartermaster 
will be returned to the issuing officer after they have been 
receipted by the agent of the receiving carrier. 

76. Shipments from Dealers. — Shipments from deal- 
ers, of freight on which the charges are to be paid by 
the department, shall be made, whenever practicable, on 
a department bill of lading. The bill of lading will be 
made up at the department, or at field stations, and sent 
to the dealer with the purchase order and full instructions 
as to the proper method of handling the bill of lading. 
Freight charges should not be prepaid by the dealer in 
such cases. 

77. Shipments to Washington, D. C— Shipments 
to Washington, D. C, on arrival will be delivered from the 
several freight depots to the bureaus of the department, the 
chief of the supply division directing the driver to the 
proper bureau when necessary. ^\Tien practicable, ship- 
ments from Washington, D. C, will be handled by the 
department wagons. In every case when di-ayage charges 
are iuA^olved the diiver must be furnished by the bureau 
with a dray ticket properly filled in and signed by an 
employee of the bureau designated for the purpose in 



32 PKOPEETY REGULATIONS. 

such a manner as will fully identify the shipment. These 
dray tickets must be attached to the account of the drayage 
company for their charges when presented for payment. 
(See Fiscal Regulations.) 

78. Shipments Via the Atlantic Ocean. — Shipments 
from the department via the Atlantic Ocean should be 
consigned care United States dispatch agent, New York, 
and the railroad company should be instructed to notify 
him of the arrival of the goods. The dispatch agent should 
be promptly furnished Avith the bill of lading covering the 
shipment and carefully instructed as to the further dis- 
position of the property. Shipping tickets and bills of 
lading should bo indorsed so as to show the foreign destina- 
tion, e. g., "to be forwarded to Paris, France.'' The 
dispatch agent should be notified of any shipments to the 
department expected to an-ive at New York from any for- ' 
eign country and fiu'nished wdth complete instructions as 
to their disposition . 

79. Shipments to Porto Rico. — All shipments to 
Porto Rico should be billed through, care Bull-Insular 
line, Baltic Terminal, Brooklyn, N. Y., and the bill of 
lading sent to the United States dispatch agent at New 
York,N. Y. 

80. Record of Sliipments. — Each bureau, office, or 
station issuing department bills of lading shall file in 
numeiical order all memorandum bills. Records shall also 
be kept of each quartermaster's bills of lading by serial 
numbers, dates and places of issue, names of officers issuing 
them, and kinds of property shipped. 

81. Instructions to be Observed. — Consignors and 
consignees should carefully observe the instructions 
printed on the back of bills of lading, especially those 
relating to the loss or damage of property shipped. 

82. Report of Delayed Shipments. — When property 
invoiced is not received within a reasonable time the fact 
will be reported to the consignor. It should be borne in 



IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1910. 33 

mind that shipments by quartermaster are frequently 
delayed en route. 

83. Delivery of Property Direct to Field Stations.— 

Delivery of property direct to field stations outside of 
Washington, for use in the field service, under a contract 
or acceptance by the General Supply Committee based 
upon delivery at the department in Washington, shall be 
made only with the consent of the contractor. In such 
cases shipments shall be made only on Government bills 
of lading and the contractors shall be required to deduct 
from their invoices the amount of the freight at the lowest 
regular established rates from the point of shipment to 
Washington as published by the Interstate Commerce 
Commission. 

84. Cash Payments Not to be Made on Shipments 
Over Land-Grant or Bond-Aided Railroads.— No 
cash payments shall be made on sliipments of supplies 
or property in whole or in part over land-grant or bond- 
aided railroads, or lines equalizing rates therewith. (See 
Fiscal Regulations.) 

85. Transfer of Household Eflfects and Other Per- 
sonal Property.— The transfer of household effects and 
other personal property of employees used in official work 
shall be sul:)ject to the provisions of the Fiscal Regula- 
tions. 

86. Shipment by Express.— Property shall not be 
shipped by express if freight or parcel post ser\dce will 
answer the needs of the department. (See Fiscal Regu- 
lations.) 

87. Express Shipments To and From Washington, 
D. C. — All matters relating to express shipments to and 
from Washington, D. C, shall be handled directly by the 
bureau concerned. The chief of the supply division will, 
upon request, by telephone or otherwise, arrange for the 
prompt collection of outgoing packages by the agent of 

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34 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

the proper express company and will render such assistance 
as may be necessary to insure prompt receipt by a bureau 
of imperfectly addressed incoming shipments; but all 
records and forms shall be prepared in the bureau, and 
each bureau shall also conduct all correspondence \7ith 
express companies relative to shipments made by or to 
it. (See Administrative Regulations and Fiscal Regula- 
tions.) 

88. Valuation of Express Shipments. — When the 
actual value of the express shipment is in excess of |50 the 
actual value should be declared and the increased express 
charge paid by the department. When the value of the 
property is under .|50, no value should be declared, unless 
a lower rate may therelDy be obtained. (See Fiscal Regu- 
lations.) 

89. Furnisliinj? Penalty Envelopes or Labels to 
Merchants or Others for Shipping Property Pro- 
hibited. — Penalty envelopes or penalty labels must not 
be furnished merchants or others from whom articles of 
property or supplies are purchased for the delivery of- 
such articles by transmission through the mails. (See 
Administrative Regulations.) 



APPENDIX A. 

PROVISIONS OF LAW AFFECTING THE 

PROPERTY ACCOUNTABILITY OF 

THE DEPARTMENT OF 

AGRICULTURE. 



35 



PROVISIONS OF LAW AFFECTING THE PROP- 
ERTY ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF AGRICULTURE. 

REV. ST. SEC. 161. 
Departmental regulations. 

Sec. 161. The head of each Department is authorized to 
prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with law, for the 
government of his Department, the conduct of its officers 
and clerks, the distribution and performance of its busi- 
ness, and the custody, use, and preservation of the records, 
papers, and property appertaining to it. 

REV. ST. SEC. 525. 

Custody of property, records, etc., of department. 

Sec. 525. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall have 
charge, in the building and premises appropriated to the 
Department, of the library, furniture, fixtures, records, 
and other property appertaining to it, or hereafter acquired 
for use in its business. 

The designation of the Commissioner is changed to Secretary of 
Agriculture by act of February 9, 1899, c. 122. 

REV. ST. SEC. 197. 
Inventories of property. 

Sec. 197. The Secretary of State, the Secretary of the 
Treasury, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Postmaster-General, 
the Attorney-General, and Commissioner of Agriculture 
shall keep, in proper books, a complete inventory of all 
the property belonging to the United States" in the build- 
ings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by them, 
respectively, and under their charge, adding thereto, 
from time to time, an account of such property as may be 
procured subsequently to the taking of such inventory, as 

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38 PROPERTY REGITLATIONS. 

well as an account of the sale or other disposition of any 
such property, except supplies of stationery and fuel in the 
jDublic offices * * *. 

Rev. St. sec. 197, as amended by act Febraary 27, 1S77, c. G9, s. 1; 
19 Stat. 241. 

ACT MARCH 39, 1894, c. 49. An act to regulate the making of 
property returns by olficers of the Government. (28 Stat. 47.) 

Certificates of loss, instead of returns, of public property, to be 
furnislied. 

That instead of forwarding to the accounting officers of 
the Treasury Department returns of public property en- 
trusted to the possession of officers or agents, the Quarter- 
master-General, the Commissary-General of Subsistence, 
the Surgeon-General, the ( 'hief of Engineers, the Cliief of 
Ordnance, the C-hief Signal Officer, the Paymaster-General 
of the Navy, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, or other 
like chief officers in any Department, by, through, or 
under whom stores, supplies, and other public property 
are received for distribution, or whose duty it is to receive 
or examine returns of such property, shall certify to the 
proper accounting officer of the Treasury Department, for 
debiting on the proper account, any charge against any 
officer or agent intrusted with public property, arising 
from any loss, accruing by his fault, to the Government as to 
the property so intrusted to him. 

Act March 29, 1S94, c. 49, s. 1, 28 Stat. 47. 

Contents and effect of certificate. 

Sec. 2. That said certificate shall set forth the condition 
of such officer's or agent's property returns, that it includes 
all charges made up to its date and not previously certified, 
that he has had a reasonable opportunity to be heard and 
has not l)een relieved of responsibility; the effect of such 
certificate, when received, shall be the same as if the facts 
therein set forth had been ascertained by the accounting 
officers of the Treaain-y Department in accounting. 
Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 2, 28 Stat. 47. 



V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 IG. 39 

Manner of making returns or of ascertaining liability not 
affected. 

Sec. 3. That the manner of making property returns to 
or in any administrative bureau or department, or of 
ascertaining liability for property, under existing laws 
and regulations, shall not be affected by this Act, except 
a? provided in section one; but in all cases arising as to 
such property so intrusted the officer or agent shall have 
an opportunity to relieve himself from liability. 

Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 3, 28 Stat. 47. 
Regulations by lieads of departments. 

Sec. 4. That the heads of the several Departments are 
hereby empowered to make and enforce regulations to 
cany out the provisions of this Act. 

Act March 29, 1894, c. 49, s. 4, 28 Stat. 47. 
ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 331. (35 Stat. 1088.) 
Robbery of personal property of the United States. 

Sec 46. Whoever shall rob another of any kind or de- 
scription of personal property belonging to the United 
States, or shall feloniously take and carry away the same, 
shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or im- 
prisoned not more than ten years, or both. 

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 4G, 35 Stat. 1097. 

This is a section of " An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," incorporating tlierein the provisions of 
Rev. St. sec, 5450, which section is expressly repealed by section 341 
of this act-. 

Section 47 of this act provides punishment for the embezzlement, 
stealing, or purloining of any money, property, record, etc., of the 
United States. 



40 PROPEETY REGULATIONS. 

ACT JANUARY 21, 1881, c. 25. An act to regulate the award of 
and compensation for public advertising in the District of Colum- 
bia. (21 Stat. 317.) 

Advertising in the District of Columbia, rates of payment. 

That all advertising required by existing laws to be 
done in the District of Columbia by any of the depart- 
ments of the government shall be given to one daily and 
one weekly newspaper of each of the two principal politi- 
cal parties and to one daily and one weekly neutral news- 
paper: Provided, That the rates of compensation for such 
service shall in no case exceed the regular commercial rate 
of the newspapers selected ; nor shall any advertisement 
])e paid for unless published in accordance with section 
tliirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised 
Statutes. 

Act January 21, 1881, c. 25, s. 1, 21 Stat. 317. 
Rev. St. see. 3828, mentioned in this provision, is set forth here- 
inafter. 

REV. ST. SEC. 3828. 

No publication of advertisement, notice, or proposal, without 
authority. 

Sec. 3828. No advertisement, notice, or proposal for any 
Executive Department of the Government, or for any Bu- 
reau thereof, or for any ofFice therewith connected, shall 
be published in any newspaper whatever, except in pur- 
suance of a written authority for such publication from the 
head of such Department; and no bill for any such adver- 
tising, or publication, shall be paid, unless there be pre- 
sented, with such bill, a cop of such written authority. 

REV. ST. SEC. .'i826. 

Pnblicati<)n of advertisements, ftotices, and proposals for con- 
tracts. 

Sec. 382G. All advertisements, notices, and proposals for 
contracts for all the Executive Departments of the Govern- 
ment, * * * shall hereafter be advertised by publi- 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 1010. 41 

cation in the three daily papers published in the District 
of Columbia having the largest circulation, one of which 
shall be selected by the Clerk of the House of Repre- 
sentatives, and in no others. The charges for such pub- 
lications shall not be higher than such as are paid by 
individuals for advertising in said papers, and the same 
publications shall be made in each of the said papers 
equally as to frequency : Provided, That no advertisement 
to any State, district, or Territory, other than the District 
of Columbia, Maryland, or Virginia, shall be published in 
the papers designated, unless at the direction first made 
of the proper head of a Department ; * * * 

ACT JULY 31, 1S76, c. 246. (19 Stat. 102.) 

Advertisements for contracts in District of Columbia. 

* * * in no case of advertisement for contracts 
for the public service shall the same be published in 
any newspaper published and printed in the District of 
Columbia unless the supplies or labor covered by such 
advertisement are to be furnished or performed in 
said District of Columbia. 

Act July 31, 1876, e. 246, s. 1, 19 Stat. 105. 

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation att for the 
fiscal year 1877. 

REV. ST. SEC. 3618. 
Proceeds of sales of property. 

Sec. 3618. All proceeds of sales of old material, con- 
demned stores, supplies, or other public property of any 
kind, except * * * materials, stores, or supplies to 
any exploring or surveying expedition authorized by law, 
shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury as mis- 
cellaneous receipts, on account of "proceeds of Govern- 
ment property," and shall not be withchawn or applied, 
except in consequence of a subsequent appropriation 
made by law. 



42 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

ACT JUNE 8, 1890, c. ,'{73. (29 Stat. 207.) 

Pa>^nent of expenses of sales of property from proceeds. 

That from the proceeds of sales of old material, con- 
demned stores, supplies, or other public property of any 
kind, before being deposited into the Treasmy, either as 
miscellaneous receipts on account of "proceeds of Govern- 
ment property" or to the credit of the appropriations to 
wliicli such proceeds are by law authorized to ])e made, 
there may ])e paid th(^ expenses of such sales, as approved 
by the accountins; ofli<'ers of the Treasury, so as to require 
only tlie net proceeds of such sales to be deposited into the 
Treasury, either as miscellaneous receipts or to the credit 
of such appropriations, as the case may be. 

Act June 8, 1S9(>, c. 373, 29 Stat. 268. 

This is a provision of the deficiency appropriation act for the fiscal 
year 1S96. 

A detailed statement of the proceeds of all sales of old material, etc. 
is required to l)o inckidcd in the appendix to the Book of Estimates, 
by Rev. St. sec. 31)72. 

REV. ST. SKC. ar>72. 

statement of proceeds of sales of old material, etc., to accom- 
pany Book of Estimates. 

Sec. 3(i72. A detailed statement of the proceeds of all 
sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other 
pul)lic prop(M-ty of any kind except materials, stores, or 
supplies .sold * * * to exploring or surveying expe- 
ditions authorized by law shall be included in the appen- 
dix to the l)ook of estimates. 

Rev. St. sec. 3(572, as amended by act February 27, 1877, c. 69, 19 
Stat. 249. 

ACT JUNE 30, 1900, c. 3914. (34 Stat. 097.) 

Statements of money from proceeds of public i>roperty or other 
sources, and of payments therefrom. 

Sec 5. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
require, and it shall be the duty of the head of each Execu- 
tive Department or other Government establishment to fm*- 



V. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 43 

nish him, within thirty days after the close of each fiscal 
year, a statement of all money arising from proceeds of 
public property of any kind or from any source other than 
the postal ser\dce, received by said head of Department or 
other Government establishment during the previous fiscal 
year for or on account of the public service, or in any other 
manner in the discharge of his official duties other than as 
salary or compensation, which was not paid into the Gen- 
eral Treasury of the United States, together ^vith a detailed 
account of all payments, if any, made from such funds 
during such year. All such statements, together wilh a 
similar statement applying to the Treasury Department, 
shall be transmitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to 
Congress at the beginning of each regular session. 

Act Jime 30, 1906, c. 3914, s. 5, 34 Stat. 763. 

This section is a part of the sundiy civil appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1907. 

ACT JUNE 2.5, 1910, c. 3S4. (.36 Stat. 70.3.) 

Statement of proceeds of sales of old material, etc., to be sub- 
mitted separate from Book of Estimates. 

Sec. 6. Hereafter the statement of the proceeds of all 
sales of old material, condemned stores, supplies, or other 
pul)lic property of any kind shall be submitted to Con- 
gress at the beginning of each regular session thereof as a 
separate communication and shall not hereafter be in- 
cluded in the annual Book of Estimates. 
Act June 25, 1910, c. 384, s. 6, 36 Stat. 773. 

This section is part of the sundry civil appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1911. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. .321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 
Embezzling, etc., public moneys, etc.; punishment. 

Sec. 47. 'Wlioever shall embezzle, steal, or purloin any 
money, property, record, voucher, or valuable thing what- 
ever, of the moneys, goods, chattels, records, or property 
of the United States, shall be fined not more than five 



44 PKOPERTY REGULATIONS. 

thousand dollars, or imprisonment not more than five 
years, or both. 

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 47, 35 Stat. 1097. 

This is a section of " An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," cited hereinbefore, incorporating therein 
provisions of act March 3, 1875, c. 144, s. 1, 18 Stat. 479, which act 
is expressly repealed by section 341 of this act. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, C. 331. (35 Stat. 1088.) 
Receiving, etc., stolen public money, etc.; punishment. 

Sec. 48. A\Tioover shall receive, conceal, or aid in con- 
cealing, or have, or retain in his possession with intent to 
convert to his own nse or gain, any money, property, 
record, voucher, or valuable thing whatever, of the moneys, 
goods, chattels, records, or property of the United States, 
which has theretofore been embezzled, stolen, or pur- 
loined by any other person, knowing the same to have been 
so embezzled, stolen, or purloined, shall be fined not more 
than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both; and such person may be tried either 
before or after the conviction of the principal offender. 

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 48, 35 Stat. 1098. 

This is a section of "An act to codify , revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," cited hereinbefore, incorporating therein 
provisions of act of March 3, 1875, c. 144, s. 2, 18 Stat. 479, which act 
is expressly repealed by section 341 of this act. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 
Embezzlement by officer; punishment. 

Sec 97. * * * any officer of the -United States, 
or any assistant of such officer, who shall embezzle or 
wrongfully convert to his own use any money or property 
which may have come into his possession or under his 
control in the execution of such office or employment, or 
under color or claim of authority as such officer or assistant, 
whether the same shall be the money or property of the 
United States or of some other ]>erson or party, shall, where 
the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute 
of the United States, be fined not more than the value of 



TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 45 

the money and property thus embezzled or converted, or 
imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. 
Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 97, 35 Stat. HOG. 
This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," cited hereinbefore, incorporating therein 
provisions of Rev. St. sec. 5497, as amended by act February 3, 1879, 
c. 42, 20 Stat. 280. Said Rev. St. sec. 5497 and amending act are ex- 
pressly repealed by section 341 of this act, 

ACT MARCH 4, 1907, C. 2907. (34 Stat. 1356.) 

Sale of prints and lantern slides from photographic negatives 
of the Department of Agriculture. 

And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby 
authorized to furnish, upon application, prints and lantern 
slides from negatives in the possession of the department 
and to charge for the same a price to cover the cost of prep- 
aration, such price to be determined and established by 
the Secretary of Agriculture, and the money received from 
such sales to be deposited in the Treasury of the United 
States. 

Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281. 

This is a provision of the agi'icultural appropriation act for the fis- 
cal year 1908, cited hereinbefore. A provision in the same words, 
except the word "hereafter," was contained in the similar act for the 
preceding fiscal year. 

A provision of the same act, for the disposition of photographic 
prints, lantern slides, etc., forest maps, and condemned property or 
material of the Forest Service, is set forth hereinafter. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1907, c. 3907. (34 Stat. 1356.) 
Disposition of accumulations of department files and obsolete 
or worthless documents or publications. 

[ And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
I to sell as waste waste paper, or otherwise to dispose of the 
I accumulation of Department files which do not constitute 
permanent records, and all other documents and publi- 
cations which have become obsolete or worthless. 

J Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1281. 

This is a further provision of the agricultural appropriation act for 
the fiscal year 1908. 



4G PEOrERTY REGULATIONS. 

Provisions, applicable to all the departments, for the disposition 
of accumulations of useless papers, contained in act February 16, 
1889, c. 171, are set forth hereinafter. 

ACT AUGUST 10, 1912, c. 284. (37 Stat. 269.) 
Purchase from appropriation for "Continpjent expenses. De- 
partment of Agriculture," of stationery, supplies, furni- 
ture, etc., for bureaus, divisions, and offices. 

* " * That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture 
may purchase stationery, supplies, furniture, and miscel- 
laneous materials from this appropriation ["Contingent 
expenses, Department of Agriculture,"] and transfer the 
same at actual cost to the various bureaus, diAdsions, and 
offices of the Department of Agriculture in the city of 
Washington, reimbursement therefor to be made to this 
appropriation by said bureaus, divisions, a,nd offices from 
their lump-fund appropriations by transfer settlements 
through the Treasury Department: Provided further , That 
the Secretary of Agriculture may hereafter exchange type- 
writers and computing, addressing, and duplicating ma- 
chines purchased from any lump-fund appropriation of 
the Department of Agriculture. 

These are provisos annexed to the appropriation for "Contingent i 
expenses, Department of Agriculture," in the agricultural appropri- 
ation act for the fiscal year 1913. 

ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 

Printing, binding, and blank books for executive departments. ! 

Sec. 87. All printing, binding, and blank books * * 
for the Executive * * * Departments shall be done 
at the Government Printing Office, except in cases other- 
wise provided by law. 

Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 87, 28 Stat. 622. 
This section supersedes Rev. St. sec. 3786. 

ACT JUNE 28, 1902, C 1301. (32 Stat. 419.) 
Supplies for execiitive departments to be furnished by Public 
Printer. 

The Pul^lic Printer is authorized hereafter to procure 
and supply, on the requisition of the head of any Execu- 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGBICULTURE, 1916. 47 

tive Department or other Government establishment, 
complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in 
duplicating processes; also complete patented devices 
with which to file money-order statements, or other uni- 
form official papers, and to charge such supplies to the 
allotment for printing and binding of the Department or 
Government establishment requiring the same. 

Act June 28, 1902, c. 1301, s. 1, 32 Stat. 481. 

This is a paragraph of the sundry civil appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1903. 

ACT JANUARY 13, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 
Delivery of documents in charge of departments, to superin- 
tendent of documents. 

Sec. 67. All documents at present remaining in charge 
of the several Executive Departments, bureaus, and 
offices of the Government not required for official use shall 
be delivered to the superintendent of documents, and 
hereafter all public documents accumulating in said De- 
partments, bureaus, and offices not needed for official use 
shall be annually tiu'ned over to the superintendent of 
documents for distribution or sale. 

Act January 12, 189.5, c. 23, s. 07, 2S Stat. 611. 

ACT FEBRUARY 25, 1903, c. 755. (32 Stat. 854.) 
Transfer of books, etc., from departments to Library of Congress 
and Public Library of District of Columbia. 

The head of any Executive department or bureau or any 
commission of the Government is hereljy authorized from 
time to time to turn over to the Liljrarian of Congress, for 
the use of the Library of Congress, any l)Ooks, maps, or 
other material in the lil)rary of the department, bureau, 
or commission no longer needed for its use, and in the 
judgment of the Lil^rarian of Congress appropriate to the 
uses of the Library of Congress. 

Any books of a miscellaneous character no longer re- 
quired for the use of such department, ])ureau, or commis- 
sion, and not deemed an advisable addition to the Liljrary 



48 PROPEETY REGULATIONS. 

of Congress, shall, if appropriate to the uses of the Free 
Public Li])rary of the District of Columbia, l^e turned over : 
to that lil)rary for general use as a part thereof. 

Act February 23, 1903, c. 755, s. 1, 32 Stat. 865. 

ACT JANUARY 12, 1895, c. 23. (28 Stat. 601.) 
Ownership of publications furnished officers for official use; 
free use of publications in depositories. 

Sec. 74. Government publications furnished to judicial 
and executive ofiicers of the United States for their ofRcial 
use shall not become the property of these officers, but on 
the expiration of their official term shall be by them 
delivered to their successors in office and all Government 
publications delivered to designated depositories or other 
libraries shall be for public use without charge. 
Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 74, 28 Stat. 620. 

ACT JANUARY 12, 189.5, c. 2.3. (28 Stat. 601.) 
Exchange of surplus documents. 

Sec. 95. Heads of Departments are authorized to ex- 
change surplus documents for such other documents and 
books as may l)e required by them, when the same can be 
done to the advantage of the public service. 
Act January 12, 1895, c. 23, s. 95, 28 Stat. 623. 

ACT FEBRUARY 16, 1889, c. 171. An act to authorize and pro- 
vide for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive Depart- 
ments. (25 Stat. 672.) 
Accumulation of useless papers in departments; report to 
Congress; examination by committee; sale or other 
disposition. 
That whenever there shall be in any one of the Executive 
Departments of the Government an accumulation of files 
of palmers, which are not needed or useful in the transaction 
of the current l)usiness of such Department and have no 
permanent value or historical interest, it shall be the duty 
of the head of such Department to submit to Congress a 
report of that fact, accompanied by a concise statement of 



U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGEICULTURE, 19 IG. 49 

the condition and character of such papers. And upon 
the submission of such report, it shall be the duty of the 
presiding officer of the Senate to appoint two Senators, and 
of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to appoint 
two Representatives, and the Senators and Representatives 
so appointed shall constitute a joint committee, to which 
shall 1)0 referred such report, with the accompanying 
statement of the condition and character of such papers, 
and such joint committee shall meet and examine such 
report and statement and the papers therein descril^ed, 
and submit to the Senate and House, respectively, a report 
of such examination and their recommendation. And if 
they report that such files of papers, or any part thereof, 
are not needed or useful in the transaction of the current 
business of such Department, and have no permanent 
value or historical interest, then it shall be the duty of such 
head of the Department to sell as waste paper, or otherwise 
dispose of such files of papers upon the best obtainable 
terms after due pul)lication of notice inviting proposals 
therefor, and receive and pay the proceeds thereof into the 
Treasury of the United States, and make report thereof to 
Congress. 

Act February 16, 1889, c. 171, 25 Stat. 672. 

This act is amended and its provisions extended by a provision of 
act March 2, 1895, c. 189, set forth hereinafter. 
- The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to sell or otherwise 
dispose of the accumulation of files and obsolete or worthless docu- 
ments and publications, by a provision of act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 
set forth hereinbefore. 

ACT MARCH 2, 1895, c. 189. (38 Stat. 910.) 
Accumulation of useless papers in department buildings. 

That the Act entitled "An Act to authorize and pro\dde 
for the disposition of useless papers in the Executive De- 
partments," approved February sixteenth, eighteen hun- 
dred and eighty-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended 
so as to include in its provisions any accumulation of files 
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50 PTiOPERTY TJEGT^LATTONR. 

of papers of a like character therein described now or here- 
after in the various public buiklinga under the control of 
the several J^^xecutdve Departments of the Government. 

Act March 2, 1S9.5, c. 189, 28 Stat. 933 

This is a provision of the sundry civil approprial ion act for the 
fiscal year 1S96. 

Act February 16, 1S89, c. 171, mentioned and amended by this pro- 
vision, is set forth hereinbefore. See note under that act relating to 
disposal of accumulal ion of files, etc., in the Department of Agricul- 
ture. 
ACT MA Km 4, 1<M)7, c. 'J907. (.t4 Stat. 1 *»->(;.) 
Sales of surplus maps and publioatlons of Weather lUireaxi. 

^- -X- :<■ lioreafter the Secretary of At^riculture is au- 
lliorized to sell any surplus maps or publications of the 
Weatlun- Bureau, and the money received from such sales 
shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States, 
section two hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised 
Statut(\s not\\'ithstandin<]:; ■'^" * '- 

Act March 1, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 12:)S. 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 190S. 

Rev. St. sec. 227, ment ionetl in this provision, is set forth below. 
REV. ST. SEC. 227. 
Sale of surplus maps and publications of Signal Office. 

Sec. 227. The ('hief Si.o:nal-()fhcer may cause to be sold 
any surplus ma])s or publications of the Signal-Office, the 
money received therefor to be applied toward defrajdn^ 
the expenses of the signal-service; and an account of the 
same shall be rendered in each annual report of the Chief 
of the Signal-Service. 

The weather service was transferred from the Signal Corps of the 
Army to the Department of Agriculture by act October 1, 1890, c, 
12()(), and the sale of surplus maps and publications of the Weather 
Bureau by the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized by a provision 
of act of March 4, 1907, c. 2907, set forth hereinbefore. 
ACT 3IAY 2.5, 1900, c. 555. (31 Stat. 191.) 
Destruction of old telegrams of Weather Bureau. 

That hereafter all telegrams pertaining to the business 
of the Weather Bureau may be destroyed after they are 



IT. S, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 51 

three years old, and tlie accounts based thereon have been 
settled by the Treasury Department; and the present ac- 
cumnlation of these old telegrams may be destroyed. 

Act Maj- 25, 1900, c. 555, 31 Stat. 204. 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1901. 

ACT JUNE 19, 1878, c. 317. An act to protect public libraries in 

the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. (20 Stat. 171.) 

Injuring or destroying, stealing, etc., books, etc.; punisliment. 

That any person who shall steal, ^\Tongfully deface, 
injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, or 
manuscript, or any portion thereof, belonging to the Li- 
brary of Congress, or to any public library in the District 
of Columbia, whether the property of the United States or 
of any individual or corporation in said district, or who 
shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or 
destroy any book, pamphlet, document, manuscript, 
print, engraving, medal, newspaper, or work of art, the 
property of the United States, shall be held guilty of a mis- 
demeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall, when the 
offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of the 
United States, be punished by a fine of not less than ten 
dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and by im- 
prisonment for not less than one nor more than twelve 
months, or both, for every such offense. 

Act June 19, 1878, c. 317, 20 Stat. 171. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. 1088.) 
Stealing, injuring, or destroying, etc., records, books, etc., of 
tlie United States. 

Sec. 128. Whoever shall wilfully and unlawfully con- 
ceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy, or attempt to 
conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, or destroy, or, with 
intent to conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, destroy, or 
steal, shall take and carry away any record, proceeding, 
map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or de- 
posited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United 



52 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

States, or i^i any public ofFice, or with any judicial or pub- 
lic officer of the United States, shall be fined not more than 
two thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three 
years, or both. 

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 128, 35 Stat. 1111. 

This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," incorporating therein tlie provisions of 
Rev. St. sec. &103, which section is expressly repealed by section 341 
of this act. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1909, c. 321. (35 Stat. lOSS.) 
Unlawfully removing, injuring, or destroying records, books, 
etc., of United States, by officer in charge thereof. 

Sec. 129. Whoever, having the custody of any reco¥d^'' 
proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing 
specified in the preceding section, shall wilfully and un- 
lawfully conceal, remove, mutilate, obliterate, falsify, or 
destroy any such record, proceeding, map, book, docu- 
ment, paper, or thing, shall be fined not more than two 
thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than three years, 
or both; and shall moreover forfeit his office and be forever 
afterward disqualified from holding any office under the 
Government of the United States. 

Act March 4, 1909, c. 321, s. 129, 35 Stat. 1112. 

This is a section of "An act to codify, revise, and amend the penal 
laws of the United States," incorporating therein the provisions of 
Rev. St. sec. 5408, which section is expressly repealed by section 341 
of this act. 

ACT AUGUST 30, 1890, c. 837. (26 Stat. 371.) 
Meteorojogical instruments for voluntary observers. 

* =■" * the Secretary of War, as he may think proper, 
may cause to be issued such meteorological instruments 
(not exceeding one set valued at fifteen dollars to any one 
county) to voluntary unpaid observers, in order to secure 
meteorological data from such observers, under regulations 
to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, * * * 

Act August 30, 1890, c. 837, s. 1, 26 Stat. 398. 
This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1891. 



U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 53 

The weather service was transferred from the Signal Corps of the 
Army to the Department of Agricnltm-e by act October 1, 1890, 
c. 1266. 

ACT IVIARCH 4, 1907, c. 2907. (34 Stat. 1256.) 
Sale of photographic prints, etc., and forest maps, and of con- 
demned property or materials. 

* * * hereafter he [the Secretary of Agriculture] may 
dispose of photographic prints (iuchidiug bromide enlarge- 
ments), lantern slides, transparencies, blueprints, and 
forest maps at cost and ten per centum additional, and 
condemned property or materials under his charge in the 
same manner as provided by law for other bureaus; 

Act March 4, 1907, c. 2907, 34 Stat. 1270. 

This is a provision, under "General Expenses, Forest Service," 
of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal year 1908. Simi- 
lar provisions, without the word "hereafter," are contained in the 
similar appropriation acts for the previous fiscal years, beginning 
with 1906. 

ACT MAY 23, 1908, c. 192. (35 Stat. 251.) 

Sale of copies of card index of publications of department. 

And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may furnish 
to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them, 
copies of the card index of the publications of the Depart- 
ment and of other agricultural literature prepared by the 
library, and charge for the same a price covering the addi- 
tional expense involved in the preparation of these copies. 

Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 264. 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1909, cited above. Provisions in substantially the same 
language, but without the word "hereafter," accompanied appropria- 
tions for the Library in the similar appropriation acts for 1904 and 
subsequent fiscal years. 

A similar provision, relating to the sale of a card index of agricul- 
tural literature prepared by the Office of Experiment Stations, is set 
forth hereinafter. 



54 PROPERTY EEC4ITLATTONS. 

ACT MAY 33, 1908, c. 193. (.35 Stat. 351.) 
Sale of copies of card index of agriciiltviral literature; disposi- 
tion of proceeds. 

And the Secretary of Agriculture hereafter may fiu-nish 
to such institutions or individuals as may care to buy them 
copies of the card index of agricultural literature prepared 
by the Office of Experiment Stations, and charge for the 
same a price covering the additional expense involved in 
the preparation of these copies, the money received from 
such sales to be deposited in the Treasury of the United 
States as miscellaneous receipts; * * *. 

Act May 23, 1908, c. 192, 35 Stat. 2G(). 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 
year 1909. Provisions in substantially similar language, but with- 
out the word "hereafter", accompanied appropriations for "Oftice 
of Experiment Stations" in the agricultural appropriation acts for 
the fiscal year 1S93 and intervening fiscal years. 

A similar provision of the act relating to the sale of a card index 
of agricultural literature, prepared by the Library of the depart- 
ment, is set forth hereinbefore. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1915. (38 Stat. 1109.) 

Sale of copies of card index of agricultural literature; disposi- 
tion of proceeds. 

And the Secretary hereafter may furnish such institu- 
tions or individuals as may care to buy them copies of the 
card index of agricultural literature prepared by the De- 
partment of Agriculture in connection with its adminis- 
tration of the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and 
eighty-seven (Twenty- fourth Statutes at Large, page four 
hundred and forty), and the Act of March sixteenth 
(Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page sixty-three), and the 
Acts amendatory and supplementary thereto, and charge 
for the same a price covering the additional expenses in- 
volved in the preparation of these copies, the money re- 
ceived from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury of 
the LTnited States as miscellaneous receipts. 
Act March 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1109. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 IG. 55 

ACT MARCH 4, 1915. (38 Stat. 1114-1115.) 
Sale or exchange of animals or animal products. 

Hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to 
sell in the open market or to exchange for other live stock 
such animals or animal products as cease to be needed in 
the work of the department, and all moneys received from 
the sale of such animals or animal products or as a bonus 
in the exchange of the same shall be deposited in the 
Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. 

Act March 4 , 1915, 3S Stat. 1114-1115. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1913, c. 145. (37 Stat. 828.) 
Preparation and sale of pathological and zoological specimens; 
disposition of receipts. 

And hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized 
to prepare and sell at cost such pathological and zoological 
specimens as he may deem of scientific or educational value 
to scientists or others engaged in the work of hygiene and 
sanitation: Provided, That all moneys received from the 
sale of such specimens shall be deposited in the Treasury 
as miscellaneous receipts. 

Act March 4, 1913, c. 145, 37 Stat. 833. 

This is a paragraph accompanying appropriations for "Cieneral 
Expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry," in the agricultural appro- 
priation act for the fiscal year 1914. 

ACT JUNE 30, 1914, c. 131. (38 Stat. 415.) 
Exchange of scientific apparatus and laboratory equipment of 
the Department of Agriculture. 

The Secretary of Agriculture may hereafter exchange 
general scientific apparatus and laboratory equipment 
purchased from any appropriation of the Department of 
Agriculture. 

Act June 30, 1914, c. 131, 38 Stat. 441. 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the fiscal 
year 1915. 



56 PROPEKTY REGULATIONS. 

ACT AUGUST 1, 1914, c. 333. (38 Stat. 609.) 
Use of furniture although not corresponding to regulation 
plan. 

And all furniture now owned by the United States in 
other public buildings and in buildings rented by the 
United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether 
it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furni- 
ture or not. 

Act August 1, 1914, c. 223, s. 1, 38 Slat. MS. 

This is a provision of the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 
year 1915, following an appropriation for furniture, carpets, and gas 
and electric fixtures and repairs of same, for all public buildings 
under the control of the Treasury Department. Similar provisions 
were contained in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal 
year 1901 and each subsequent similar act thereafter previous to 
this act. 

ACT APRIL 6, 1914, c. 53. (38 Stat. 313.) 

Use of paper owned by executive departments in work therefor. 

Pai)er now owned by any executive department or other 
Government establishment at Washington, District of 
Colum]jia, may be used by the Government Printing 
Office in executing work for such department or estab- 
lishment. 

Act April (1, 1914, c. 52, s. 1, 38 Stat. 328. 

This is a paragraph, under the heading "Government Printing 
Office," in the urgent deficiencies appropriation act for the fiscal year 
1914 and prior years. 

ACT MARCH 4, 1911, c. 338. (36 Stat. 133.5.) 
Traveling exjienses and charges for transportation of effects, 
etc., of oflicers and employees of tlie Department of Agri- 
culture transferred from one station to another. 

That hereafter officers and employees of the Department 
of Agriculture transferred from one official station to 
another for permanent duty, when authorized by the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture, may be allowed actual traveling 
expenses, including charges for the transfer of their effects 
and personal property used in official work, under such 



U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE, 1916. 57 

rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture. 

Act March 4, 1911, c. 238, 30 Stat. 1265. 

This is a provision of the agricultural appropriation act for the 
fiscal year 1912. 

ACT AUGUST 18, 1914 (38 Stat. 698). 
Sale of oflacial standards. 

Sec. 9. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and 
directed to prepare practical forms of the official cotton 
standards which shall be established by him, and to for- 
nish such practical forms from time to time, upon request, 
to any person, the cost thereof, as determined by the Secre- 
tary of Agriculture, to be paid by the person requesting the 
same, and to certify such practical forms under the seal of 
the Department of Agriculture and under the signature of 
the said Secretary, thereto affixed by himself or by some 
official or employeeof the Department of Agriculture there- 
unto duly authorized by the said Secretary. 

Act August 18, 1914, 38 Stat. 693. 

ACT M.\RCH 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1101). 

Sale of samples of pure sugar, naval stores, microscopical 
specimens, etc. 

* * * and hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture 
may furnish, upon application, samples of pure sugar, 
naval stores, microscopical specimens, and other })roducts 
to State and municipal officers, educational institutions, 
and other parties and charge for the same a price to cover 
the cost thereof, such price to be determined and estab- 
lished by the Secretary, and the money received from sales 
to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as 
miscellaneous receipts. 

Act March 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1101. 



58 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

ACT MARCH 4, 191.5 (.38 Stat, 1107). 
ExchanRe of books and periodicals. 

That hereafter the Secretary of Agriculture may ex- 
chaui^e books and periodicals of the lil)rary not needed for 
permanent use for other books and periodicals. 
Act March 4, 1915, 38 Stat. 1107. 



APPENDIX B. 

LIST OF EXPENDABLE AND NONEX- 
PENDABLE PROPERTY. 



59 



EXPENDABLE AND NONEXPENDABLE PROPERTY. 

The following list of "Expendable" and ''Nonexpend- 
able" property divides the property of the department 
into general classes and does not necessarily show the bureau 
designation to be followed in taking it up on the returns. 
The list shows articles which are known to be parts of 
other articles and such parts will only be accounted for 
separately when they are temporarily carried in stock. 
The list also shows articles of glassware which occasionally 
are used in the laboratories and when so used they will be 
considered as ''laboratory glassware" and therefore will 
be expendable: 

(o) Articles not exceeding 25 cents in value marked 
with an asterisk will be considered as "Expendable," 
and articles exceeding 25 cents in value marked with an 
asterisk will be considered as "Nonexpendable." 

(b) Articles marked "Expendable" may be made 
"Nonexpendable" in special cases in the discretion of 
the chief of bureau. 

(c) Articles not specifically mentioned must be sub- 
mitted to the Secretary for classification, unless such 
articles are similar in character to those enumerated under 
a general class, in which case they may be considered as 
being included under th e general class. 

{d) Fixtures placed by the department in a private 
building which has been rented will be accounted for as 
"Nonexpendable," and shall be removed when the build- 
ing is vacated. Fixtures placed in a building owned by 
the department may be considered as a part of the build- 
ing and need not be accounted for separately. 

(e) Materials and parts for construction purposes may 
be considered as expended when applied to the work, 
but the constructed article in its entirety, such as a tele- 
graph line, building, fence, shed, or wall case, must be 
accounted for when completed. Materials and parts for 
repair purposes or to replace other parts will become a 
part of the article repaired or to which it has been attached, 

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62 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

such a>s a boiler, vehicle, telegraph line, fence, or electric 
fan, and may be considered as expended when applied to 
the work. When it is impracticable to obtain by pur- 
chase parts needed for the repair or improvement of other 
articles or the creation of new articles, or when economy 
of expenditure or efficiency of use will result, and the 
necessary parts can be taken from articles on hand and no 
longer needed for the purpose for which originally de- 
signed, such articles on hand may be regarded as parts 
and expendable under this paragraph. Entire articles 
may be purchased and considered as parts and expendable 
when immediately used in the same way. When in ex- 
perimental or research work it becomes necessary to de- 
stroy an article ordinarily carried as nonexpendable it may 
be considered expendable for the purpose of the investi- 
gation in which it is used. 

(/) All articles of platinum shall be carried as nonex- 
pendable. Owing to its value, all platinum shall, so far 
as practicable, be safeguarded, and shall be accounted for 
by weight, size, or identification mark, and every transfer 
from one official or employee to another shall be evidenced 
by a receipt, and any loss, damage, or consumption in use, 
or other disposition of same, shall be recorded. 

(g) Under the item "Outfits" each article comprising 
the outfit must be accounted for. 



Expendable. 



A(!etomelers or acidimeters. 



Adjusters, cord. 



Nonexpendable. 



Abeissensehreibers. 
Accumulators. 

Adapters: 

Camera. 

Microscope. 
Addressers, envelope, hand. 
Adhesivometers. 
Adjusters: 

Casement. 

Wood pitch. 
Adzes: 

Hand. 

Tree. 
Agitators, spray pump. 



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Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Albumenometers. 






Albums. 




Alidades. 


Alloys. 




Ambulances. 
Ammeters. 
Analyzers, microscopic. 






Anchors. 
Andirons. 
Anemographs. 
Anemometers. 
Angles, drawing. 


Animals (for exjierimental 


]iur- 


Animals (not for experimental pur- 


poses or for slaughter for 


f()0<l 


poses or for slaughter for f(.od pur- 


purposes). 




poses). 
Annuciators: 

Elevator style. 

House style. 
Anvils. 
.\perlometers. 


Apparatus: 
Chemical, glass and porcela 




Aj)pariitus: 


in. 


Beckman. 


*Chemical, other than glass and 


Berlese. 


porcelain, costing up to 25 cents. 
Laboratory, glass and porcelain. 


Blast. 


Bleaching. 


*Lalioratory, other than 


glass 


Carbonating. 


and porcelain, costing up 


to 2.5 


Centering. 


cents. 


1 


*Chemical, other than glass and 
porcelain, costing over 2.3 cents. 

Combustion. 

(instant temperature. 

Counting. 

Dam|)ing-off 

Defining, camphor. 

Devv'point. 

Diffraction. 

Digestion. 

Distilling. 

Drafting. 

Drawing and projection. 

Drop recording. 

Egg candling. 

Electrical. 

Electro-analysis. 

Electro-culture. 

Electrolytic. 

Extraction. 

For cutting tobacco leaves into 
microscopicsecticns. 

For determining permanent set 
of rubber. 

For filling bottles. 

For sectioning cereals. 

For testing flintness of grains. 

Freezing. 

Fumigating. 



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PKOPEETY EEGtTLATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Apparatus— Cont inued . 




Gas analysis and gas testing. 




Gas exhausters. 




Grain crushing. 




Humidity. 




Incinerating. 




Inflating. 




Klemm. 




* Laboratory, other than glass and 




porcelain, costing over 25 cents. 




Leveling. 




Measuring. 




Melting point determining. 




Microscopic. 




Moisture. 




Orsat. 




Oxygen bomb. 




Perfusion (Kronecker). 




J'hotographic. 




I'otato drying. 




Press, tincture. 




Pure yeast and fermenting. 




Eefming camphor. 




Respiration, metal. 




Serum solidifying. 




Shaking. 




Sodium light. 




Soil sampling. 




Sorter. 




Specific gravity. 




Stirring. 




Sugar determining. 




Surgical. 




Tension. 




Time recording. 




Vacuum drying. 




Vetch. 




Wireless telegraph. 




Wax rendering. 




Aprons: 




Carriage. 




Laboratory. 




Storm. 




Wagon. 




Areamometers. 




Arms: 




Direction, sets. 




Telephone. 




Arresters, lightning. 




Arrows, metal. 


Asbestos. 




Aspirators, glass. 


Aspirators, metal. 

Atlases. 


Atomizers, glass. 


Atomizers, metal. 



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Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Attachments: 


Attachments: 


Chain pull. 


Balance. 


*Drill, costing up to 25 cents. 


Camera. 


Farm implements, extra parts. 


Compass. 


*Lathe, costing up to 25 cents. 


Drawing board. 




*Drili, costing over 25 cents. 




Heating. 




Height gauge. 
High-speed mill. 






Hoisting, for storm - warning 




towers. 




Hook gauge. 




Inking, multigraph. 




*Lathe, costing over 25 cents. 




Multiple. 

Parallel, for drawing table. 






Regulating. 




Steam engine indicator test. 




Tripod. 


*Augers, costing up to 25 cents: 


^Augers, costing over 25 cents: 


Carpenter's. 


Carpenter's. 


Posthole. 


Posthole. 


Soil. 


Soil. 




Autoclaves: 




Chemical. 




Force, cement. 




Steam, pressure. 




Automobiles. 


Awls. 






Awnings. 




Axes: 




Hand. 




Pocket. 




Backgroimds, photographic. 




Badges, metal. 


Bags: 


Bags: 


Burlap. 


Feed or nose. 


Canvas. 


Field, note book. 


Cotton. 


Game. 


Paper. 


Leather. 




Mail. 




Money. 




Picking. 




Rubber. 




Saddle. 




Sleeping. 
Tool. 




Traveling. 




Wash. 




Water. 




Balances: 




Analvtical. 




Beam. 



44778°— IG- 



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PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 






Balances— Continued. 

Chemical. 

Computing. 

Ivever. 

Prescrintion. 

Snow-naeasuring. 

Specific gravity. 

Spring. 

Sugar^testing. 

Torsion. 
Balers, hay. 


Ballasts, for Cooper-Hewitt lamp. 








Bailers, potato. 






Balloons. 


Balls, moth. 






Bandages: 






Horse. 






Hospital. 






Bands, rubber. 




Barographs. 
Barometers: 

Aneroid. 

Mercurial. 


Barrels, wood. 




Barrels, metal. 
Bars: 

Nail. 

Pinch. 

Posthole. 

Slice. 

Wrecking. 
Baseboards, camera. 
Bases, floor, copvholder. 


*Basins, costing up 


to 25 cents: 


*Basins, costing over 25 cents: 


China. 




China. 


Enameled. 




Enameled. 


Granite. 




Granite. 


Porcelain. 




Porcelain. 


Stone. 




Stone. 


Tin. 




Tin. 


Baskets: 




Baskets: 


Desk. 




Clothes. 


=i=Market, costing 


ip to 25 cents. 


Dewar. 


Shipping. 




Hand grenade. 


Test tube, wire. 




Leatheroid. 


Waste. 




^Market, costing over 25 cents. 
Meat. 
Picking. 
Potato. 

Oak splint or bamboo. 
Spittoon carrier, wire. 
Truck or warehouse. 


Baths: 




Baths: 


*Sand. 




Drying. 

Laboratory. 

Letterpress. 



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Expendable. 



Nonexpendable, 



Batteries, other than storage: 

Dry. 

Wet. 
Beakers: 

*Metal, costing up to 25 cents. 

Other than metal. 
Beaters: 

*Egg, costing up to 25 cents. 



Beeswax. 



♦Binders, costing up to 25 cents: 
Loose leaf. 
Vest pocket, loose leaf. 



Baths— Continued. 

Paraffin. 

Steam. 

Thermal. 

Water. 
Batons, watchman's. 
Batteries, storage. 



Beakers: 
*Metal, costing over 25 cents. 

Beaters: 

*Egg, costing over 25 cents. 

Rug. 
Beams, w^eightmaster's. 
Bedplates. 
Beds, wagon. 
Bedsteads. 
Beehives. 

Bellows: 

Foot. 

Hand. 
Bells: 

Call or electric. 

Dinner. 

Farm. 

Magneto test. 
Belting: 

Canvas. 

Leather, 
Belts: 

Cartridge. 

Machine. 

Repairman's. 

Tool. 
Benches : 

Cabinetmaker's, 

Carpenter's. 

Drill. 

Laboratory. 

Lathe. 

Lawn. 

Optical. 

Vise. 
Benders, tire. 
Bevels. 
Bicycles. 
Binders: 

Corn. 

Grain. 

*Loose leaf, costing over 25 cents, 

*Vest pocket, loose leaf, costing 
over 25 cents. 



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PKOPEKTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 






Bins, flour and grain. 






Bird scarers. 


Biscuits, dog. 




Bistouries. 


*Bits, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Bits, costing over 25 cents: 


Auger. 




Auger. 


Beet boring. 




Beet boring. 


Bridle. 




Bridle. 


Drenching. 




Drenching. 


Drill. 




Drill. 


Expansion. 




Expansion. 


Plane. 




Plane. 


Screw driver. 




Screw driver. 
Blackboards. 


Blades: 




Blades: 


Awl. 




*Saw, other than hack, costing 


Cigar. 




over 25 cents. 


Fan. 




Scythe. 


Saw, hack. 






*Saw, other than hack, 


costing up 




to 25 cents. 




Blankets: 
Bed. 
Horse. 

Printing and lithographing press. 
Saddle. 


Blanks, key. 








Blast, sand. 



Blocks 
Clinch. 

Fixture, electrical. 
Paving. 
* Pulley, costing up to 25 cent: 



Blotters. 



Board: 
Beaver. 
Binder's. 
Bristol. 
Ceil. 
Conipo. 
Corrugated. 
Illustrating. 
Manila. 
Mounting. 



Blocks: 
Base. 
Drill. 
Pillow. 

=i=Pullev, costing over 25 cents. 
Ratchet. 
Signal. 
Stamp. 
Stereotype. 
Triple roller. 

Blowers: 
Air. 

Electric. 
Powder. 
Pressvire. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Board— Continued. 




Neponset. 




Oil. 




Press. 




Straw. 




Tag. 




Tar. 




Upson. 




Vulcanized hard fiber. 




Boards: 


Boards: 


Bread. 


Cheese. 


File. 


Cigar. 


Hygrometer. 


Copy (camera). 


Lens. 


Drawing. 


Maximum anr^ minimum ther- 


Field writing. 


mometer. 


Ironing. 




Kneading. 




Printing. 




Rabbitt. 




Setting. 




Sketching. 




Skid. 




Stadia. 




Stove. 




Switch. 




Terrapin. 




Traverse. 




Wash. 


Boats: 


Boats: 


Combustion, glass. 


Combustion, metal. 




Row. 


Bobs, plumb. 




Bodkins. 






Boilers: 




Agate. 




Copper. 




Steam. 




Wash. 


*Bolts, metal, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Bolts, metal, costing over 25 cents. 
Bombs, for electric ignition. 




Bon Ami. 






Bookcases: 




Combined, with cupboard or sec- 
retary. 
Revolving. 






Stationary. 


Books: 


Books: 


Blank. 


Atlases. 


Diaries. 


Directories (city). 


Index. 


Fiction. 


Journal. 


Law. 


Ledger. 


Marine. 


Letter copying. 


Professional. 


Manifold. " 


Scientific. 



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PEOPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Books— Continued. 


Books— Continued. 


Map. 


Technical. 


Memorandum. 


Text. 


Record. 




Road siu-vey. 




Scrap. 




Stenographer's note. 






Bookstacks, library. 




Booths, telephone," 




Boots: 




Horse. 




Men's. 




Borers: 




Cork. 




Increment. 


Bottles, glass: 


Bottles, otlier than glass: 


Color, lor holding atlas tints 


Hot-water. 


Laboratory. 


Thermos, metal. 


Prescription. 




Thermos, glass. 




Water-cooler. 




Bottoms, chair: 




Cane. 




Wood. 




Bowls: 


Bowls: 


♦Household, costing up to 2.5 


Closet. 


cents. 


Dampening. 




*Househokl, costing over 25 cents. 




Platinum. 




Bows, wagon. 


Boxes: 


Boxes: 


Desk, for letters. 


Barometer. 


File, pasteboard. 


Battery. 


♦Lantern slide, costing up to 25 


Breeding. 


cents. 


Cable. 


*Lens, costing up to 25 cents. 


Call. 



Mailing and shipping. 

Pill. 

Powder. 

♦Switch, costing up to 25 cents. 

Thermometer. 

♦Tin, costing up to 25 cents. 

Ointment. 

♦Wood, other than fding and 

shipping, costing up to 25 

cents. 



Camera. 

Carbon. 

Casting. 

Coal and wood. 

Concrete. 

Conduit, electrical. 

Comiector. 

Contact. 

Copper. 

Cotton. 

Culinary. 

Culture, metal. 

Cutting. 

Division, for canal rating. 

Drying. 

Feed. 

File, metal and wood. 

Fire-alarm. 

Fumigating. 



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Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Boxes— Continued. 




Ice. 




Insect. 




Japanned, for colors. 




*Lantern-slide, costing over 25 




cents. 




*Lens, costing over 25 cents. 




Mail. 




Metal. 




Miter. 




Photographic. 




Resistance. 




Seed (except for shipping). 

Soil. 

Solar lantern. 






Steaming. 




*Switch, costing over 25 cents. 




*Tin, costing over 25 cents. 




Tobacco. 

*Wood, other than filing and 






shipping, costing over 25 cents. 




Zinc fixing and washing. 




Braces: 




Carpenter's. 




Corner. 




Trench. 




Tripod. 


Brackets: 


Brackets: 


*Metal, costing up to 25 cents. 
Wood. 
Brads. 


*Metal, costing over 25 cents. 






Brakes: 




Hemp. 




Rope. 


Brass, bars and sheets. 






Braziers. 




Breakers: 




Brush. 




Cord. 




Electric. 




Ice. 


Brick: 




i Building. 




' Fire. 




1 Paving. 






Bridges: 




Electrolytic. 




Oswald. 




Pyrheliometer. 




Soil. 




Wheatstone. 




Bridles. 


i Broaches. 




*Broilers, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Broilers, costing over 25 cents. 



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PROPEETY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Bronze, bars and sheets. 






Brooders. 


Brooms: 




Floor. 




Push. 




Whisk. 




Brushes: 


Brushes: 


Artist's. 


Floor polishing, large, with han- 


Blacking. 


dle. 


Bottle. 


Toilet. 


Chemical work. 




Cleaning, closet. 




Copying. 




Crumb. 




Cuspidor. 




Draftsman's. 




Dust. 




Glue. 




Horse. 




Kalsomine and whitewash. 




Lacquering. 




Lye. 




Machinist's. 




Mane. 




Marking. 




Mimeograph. 




Mucilage. 




Painter's dusting. 




Paste. 




Photographic. 




Radiator. 




Scrub. 




Shaving. 




Sink. 




Stencil. 




Sweeps, floor and wall. 




Test-tube. 




Typewriter. 




Wall. 




Window. 




^Buckets or pails, costing up to 25 


^Buckets or pails, costing over 25 


cents: 


cents: 


Canvas. 


Canvas. 


Enameled. 


Enameled. 


Galvanized iron. 


Galvanized iron. 


Paint. 


Paint. 


Papier-mach(5. 
Soil dish. 


Papier-mach^. 


Soil dish. 


Wood. 


Wood. 


Buckles. 






Buffers, blacksmith. 




Buggies. 




Buildmgs. 


Bulbs: 




Atomizer. 




Blow. 





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Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Biilbs— Continued. 




Conjugate. 




Dental. 




Electric. 




Pipette. 




Putty. 




Rubber. 




Thermograph. 




Bumpers, rubber. 






Bundlers, cigar. 


Bunting. 






Bureaus. 


Burettes, glass. 


Burettes, metal. 


Burlap. 




Burners: 


Burners: 


Blast. 


Acetylene. 


Bunsen. 


Alcohol. 


Gas, for fixtures. 


Electric. 


Lamp. 




Lantern. 






Burnishers, hand. 


Burnishine. 




Bushings. 




Buttons: . 




Clothing, collar, suspender, etc. 




Door, iron and brass. 




Push, electric. 




Upholstering. 




Buzzers, electric. 






Cabinets: 




Blue prmt or plan. 




Card index. 




Chemical. 




Culture tube. 




Drawing table. 




File. 




Glassware. 




Insect. 


- 


Kitchen. 




Laboratory. 




Lantern slide. 




Medicine. 




Metal and wood. 




Microscope slide. 




Milling machine. 




Multigraph. 




Pamphlet. 




Photographic. 




Planotype. 




Press copy and bookcase. 




Seed. 




Soil. 




Stationeiy. 




Storage. 




Toilet and mirror. 




Towel. 




Work. 



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PEOPERTY REGULATIONS. 



•Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 






Cables. 






Cages: 






Animal. 






Breeding. 






Fumigating. 






Hibernating. 






Inoculating. 






Insect. 






Metabolism. 






Parasite. 






Soil sampling. 






Valve. 






Calculators. 


Calendars, desk. 






*Calipers, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Calipers, costing over 25 cents. 


LaiKing. 
Jute. 






Lead. 






Oakum. 






Calks: 






Horse. 






Mule. 




Calorimeters. 
Cameras or kodaks. 
Candlers, egg. 


Candles. 






^Candlesticks, costing up 


to 25 cents. 


♦Candlesticks, costing over 25 cents. 



Cane, chair. 

*Cans, costing up to 25 cents: 
Brass. 
Copper. 

Galvanized iron. 
Steel. 
Tin. 
Zinc. 



*Caps for men , costing up to 25 cents. 
Carbides. 

Carbons: 

Battery. 

Lamp. 
Carboys. 

Cai'ds, paper and metal. 



Canoes. 

='=Cans, costing over 25 cents: 

Brass. 

Copper. 

Galvanized iron. 

Steel. 

Tin. 

Zinc. 
Camiulas, metal. 
Canteens. 
Capes. 
Capotes. 
''•Caps lor men, costing over 25 cents 

Carbines. 



Carburetors. 

Carpets. 

Carriages. 

CaiTiers: 
Camera and film. 
Hay and straw. 
Luggage. 



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Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Cases: 
Mailing. 
Pillow. 



Casks, wood. 
Casseroles, laboratory. 
Casters. 
Castings. 

Catches. 

*Catlieters, costing up to 25 cents. 

Cells: 

Battery. 

Conductivity. 

Resistance. 
Celluloid. 
Cement: 

Adhesive. 

Belt. 

Construction. 



Carriers— Continued. 

Metal disk. 

Track. 

Tub. 

Window shade. 
Cars: 

Canal rating. 

Coal, hand. 

Hay-track. 

Railway. 
Carts: 

Barrel. 

Canoe. 

Hand, push. 

Horse. 



Addressograph. 

Apparatus. 

Battery. 

Brief. 

Camera. 

Carrying. 

Chart stand. 

Chemical. 

Culture and reagent. 

Current meter. 

Instrument. 

Laboratory. 

Map. 

Poison antidotes. 

Printing. 

Show. 

Sketching. 

Soil auger. 

Specimen. 

Suit. 

Tvpewriter, carrying. 

Wall. 
Cashiers, automatic. 
Casks, melal. 
Casseroles, cooking. 



Catchers, grass. 

*Catheters, costing over 25 cents. 
Cathetometers. 



76 



PKOPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Cement— Continued . 




Furnace. 




Magnesia. 




Motion-picture. 

Pad. 

Portland. 






Rubber, liquid. 




Steam and water pipe. 






Centrifuges: 




Electric. 




Hand. 


Chains: 


Chains: 


Basin. 


Cow. 


Sash. 


Dog. 


Transom. 


Engineer's. 


Weight. 


Halter. 




Jack. 




Log. 




Pipe. 




Surveyor's. 




Trace. 




Chairs: 




Bontwood. 




Camp. 




Dining room. 




Folding. 




Kitclien. 




OiOce. 




Porch. 




Rocking. 




Tyjiewriter. 


Chalk: 




French. 




Prepared. 




Chambers, moist, glass. 


Cliamliers: 




Counting. 




Culture. 




Filter. 




Vacuum. 




Water. 




Chandeliers. 




Channelers, leather. 


Charcoal. 






Chartometers. 


*Charts, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Charts, costing over 25 cents: 


Climatic. 


Climatic. 


Element. 


Element. 


Metric. 


Metric. 




Chases, printing. 




Checks, door. 


Cheesecloth. 




Chemicals. 






Chests: 




Storage. 




Tool. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



77 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Chickens. 






Chiffoniers. 


Chimneys, lamp. 




♦Chisels, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Chisels, costing over 25 cents. 




Chondro meters. 




Choppers: 




Cornstalk. 




Feed. 




Meat. 




Chronographs. 




Chronometers. 




Churns. 


Cinches. 






Circles, arc and ball. 




Cisterns, barometer. 


Clamps: 


Clamps: 


Basin. 


Arm. 


Cable. 


Cabinetmaker's and carpenter's;. 


Casting box. 


For hook gauge attachment. 


Condenser. 




Hose. 




Laboratory. 




Lantern slide. 




Micro. 




Saw. 




Splicing (lineman's connectors). 




Stereotype. 




Support. 






Clarifiers. 


Clay: 




Fire. 




Modeling. 




Cleaners, gun. 


Cleaners: 




Boiler tube. 




Chalk plate. 




Ditch, 




Flue and scraper. 




Potato, 




Tile. 




Vacuum. 




Cleavers, butcher's. 


Clevises. 






Climbers and straps. 




Clinchers. 




Clinometers, compass. 




Clippers: 
Dog. 




Fruit picking. 




Horse. 


Clips: 




Paper. 




Photograph. 




Window-shade roller. 






Clocks: 




Bracket. 




Desk. 



78 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Clocks— Continued . 




Electric. 




Mantel. 




Photographic timing. 




Wall. 




Watchman's. 




Closets, drying. 


Cloth. 




Cloths, letter press. 




(nothespins. 






Clusters, electric. 




Clutches: 




Friction. 




Scroll. 


Coal. 






Coats. 


*Cocks, pluml)ing and laboratory, 


*Cocks, plumbing and laboratory, 


costing np to 25 cents. 


costing over 25 cents. 




Coherers. 


Coils, glass. 


Coils, metal: 




Field. 




Keating. 




Immersion. 




Induction. 




Motor vibration. 




Resistance. 


Colanders. 




Collars, shafting. 


Collars: 

1 »/.ir 




1 'Og. 

J torso. 




Mule. 




Collectors: 




Atmospheric. 




Mechanical. 




Colorimeters. 


Colors: 




Lantern slide. 




Oil. 




Water. 




Coml)s: 


Combs: 


Canling. 


Rice. 


Curry. 


Toilet. 


Graining. 




Mane. 






Comforts. 




Commutators. 




(Comparators: 




Color. 




Thermo. 




Compartments, constant tempera- 




ture. 



U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTURE, 1916. 



79 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Compasses: 
*Drawing, costing up to 25 cents. 
*Pen and pencil, costing up to 25 
cents. 



Compound: 
Acid and alkali proof. 
Chatterton's. 
Flexible. 
Insulating. 
Licorice powder. 
Welding. 



Condensers: 

Laboratory, glass. 

^Laboratory, other than glass, 
costing up to 25 cents. 
Conduits. 
Cones: 

Filtering. 

Pin 
Connectors: 

Conductivity apparatus, carbonic. 

Single and d'oubie. 



Copper, bars and sheets. 
Coppers, battery. 
Cord: 

Blocking, for kites. 

Electric. 

Picture. 

Sash. 



Compasses: 
Beam. 

^Drawing, costing over 25 cents. 
Magnetic. 
*Pen and pencil, costing over 25 

cents. 
Surveyor's. 



Compressometers. 
Compressors. 
Computers, alcohol. 
Condensers, other than glass: 

Electric. 

*Laboratory, costing over 25 cents. 

Microscope! 



Cones: 
Platinum. 
Reflecting. 



Contacts, wind direction. 
Containers: 

Seed. 

Soap. 
Controllers, speed, motors. 
Converters, rotary. 
Conveyors, kiln. 
Cookers: 

Fircless. 

For use in alcohol work. 

Lime sulphur. 

Oatmeal. 

Pressure. 

Vacuum. 
Coolers: 

Cream. 

Mash. 

Milk. 

Water. 

Wine, metal only. 



80 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Cord— Continued. 




• 


Window shade. 






Wrapping. 






Cordage. 






Cork, compressed sheet. 






Corks. 






^Corkscrews, costing up 


ho 25 cents. 


^Corkscrews, costing over 25 cents. 


Corners, art. for photo albums. 




Cornstarch.' 




Costumers. 


Cots, finger. 




Cots, sleeping. 


Cotton: 






Absorbent. 






Batting. 






Duck. 






Sheet. 






Spool. 






Waste. 




Coulters. 


*Counterbores, costing 


up to 25 


*Counterbores, costing over 25 


cents. 




cents. 
Counters: 
Kiosk. 
Office. 
Ratchet. 

Revolutionary electric. 
Twist fiber. 
Typewriter. 


*Countersinks, costing 


up to 25 


=i=Countersinks,costing over 25 cents. 


cents. 






Couplings: 






Elbow. 






Hose. 






Round, belt lacing. 






Covers: 




Covers: 


Cock-hole, basin. 




Camera. 


Desk. 




Carriage. 


Paper. 




Chair seat. 


Pot. 




Cot. 


Typewriter. 




Dial, anemometer. 

Horse. 

Instrument. 

Lantern slide. 

Plant. 

Printing press. 

Stack. 

Storm. 

Tank. 

Wagon. 
Crackers, nut. 
Cradles, grain. 
Cranes, portable and hoist. 


Crates, shipping. 




Crates, other than shipping. 


Crayons. 




Creamers. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



81 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 






Crematories. 






Crimpers, cap. 


Crocks. 






Cross arms, telegraph and tele- 


Cross arms, anemometer. 


phone. 




Crowbars. 


Crucibles: 




Crucibles: 


*Metal, costing up to 2o 


cents. 


*Metal, costing over 25 cents. 


Other than metal. 






*Cruets, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Cruets, costing over 25 cents. 

Crushers. 

Cultivators: 










Hand. 






Riding. 






Walking. 






Cupboards. 


Cups: 




Cups: 


Color. 




Anemometer, with arms. 


Glass. 




*Metal, costing over 25 cents. 


Hygrometer. 






Ink. 






Laboratory. 






Measuring. 






*Metal, costing up to 25 


cents. 




Paste. 
Sponge. 
*Cups and saucers, dining 






, costing 


*Cups and saucers, dining, costing 


up to 25 cents. 




over 25 cents. 
Curtains, window. 
Curves, drafting and drawing. 


Cushions: 




Cushions: 


Pin. 




Air. 


Typewriter. 




Couch. 
Cuspidors: 
Aluminum. 
Brass. 
China. 
Iron. 
Steel. 


Cut-outs, plug. 






♦Cutters, costing up to 25 


cents. 


*Cutters, costing over 25 cents. 


Card. 




Card. 


Cigar. 




Cigar. 


Dock. 




Dock. 


Ensilage. 




Ensilage. 


Feed. 




Feed. 


Gasket. 




Gasket. 


Gear. 




Gear. 


Glass. 




Glass. 


Hay. 
Hide. 




Hay. 
Hide. 


Meat. 




Meat. 


Metal. 




Metal. 


Pipe. 




Pipe. 


! Potato. 




Potato. 


i Tobacco. 




Tobacco. 



82 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Cutters, costing up to 25 cents - 
Continued. 
Washer. 
Wire. 



Cylinders, gla 



Dams, canvas, irrigating. 

Demijohns. 

Denim. 



Dermax, for mimeograph. 
Desiccators, other than metal. 



Dibbles, other than metal. 



Cutters, costing 
Continued. 

Waslier. 

Wire. 
Cyclometers. 
Cyclostyles. 
Cylinders, metal: 

Ammonia. 

Gas. 

Oil. 

Oxygen. 

''Save All." 

Soil. 



Deodorizers. 
Dermatoscopes. 



over 25 cents- 



Derricks. 

Desiccators, metal. 
Desks, steel and wood: 

Flat-top. 

Roll-top. 

Retouching. 

Sectional file. 

Standing. 

Typewriter. 
Destructors, squirrel. 
Detectors, time. 
Devices: 

Drip weighing. 

For current meter rating. 

Hog watering. 

IMpe pulling. 

Reading. 
Dials, wind direction. 
Dialysers. 
Diaphragms: 

Camera. 

Microscope. 
Dibbles, metal. 
Dies: 

Machinist's. 

Meat inspection. 

Pipe cutter's. 

Stamping. 

Watchmaker's. 
Dies and stocks. 
Diggers: 

Post hole. 

Potato. 

Root. 

Tree. 

Weed. 



U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTUKE, 19 IG. 



83 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Dippers. 
Dishes: 

*Dining, costing up to 25 cents. 

Laboratory, glass and porcelain. 
Disinfectants. 
Disks: 

Cipher. 

I/ead. 

Sterilizing. 

Valve. 



*Dividers, costing up to 25 cents: 
Carpenter's. 
Drafting and dra\\ ing. 
Engineer's. 
Machinist's. 
Proportional. 



Domes, glass. 



Dressing: 
Harness. 
Hoof. 



Drills: 
♦Carpenter's, costing up to 25 

cents. 
♦Machinist's, costing up to 25 

cents. 



Droppers, medicine. 
Drugs. 



Duck, enameled, cloth. 
Dusters, feather. 



Dishes: 
♦Dining, costing over 25 cents. 
Laboratory, metal. 



Distributors: 

File. 

Gas. 

Mail. 

Powder. 
Ditchers. 
♦Dividers, costing over 25 cents: 

Carpenter's. 

Drafting and drawing. 

Engineer's. 

Machinist's. 

Proportional. 
Dockers, lamb. 

Dories. 

Douches, cattle. 
Drains, floor. 
Drays. 
Dressers: 

Bedroom. 

Emery wheel. 



Driers, corn. 
Drills: 

♦Carpenter 's,costing over 25 cents. 

Disk. 

Fertilizer. 

Garden. 

Grain. 

Horse. 

♦Macliinist's, costing over 25 
cents. 

Planet. 

Seed. 

Shoe. 

Well. 



Drums, iron. 



Dykers. 

Dynamometers. 

Dynamos. 



84 



PKOPEKTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Elbows: 

Down spouting;. 
Stove. 

Electroplates or electrotypes. 



Embossers, " Prevent forest fires. 
Emery: 

Cloth. 

Paper. 



Envelopes. 

Eradieators, ink, liquid. 
Erasers: 

Rubber. 

Steel. 



Excelsior. 
Extensions, pipe. 



Eyelets. 

Eyes, screw: 
Brass. 
Steel. 



Easels. 

EbuUioscopes. 

Edges. 

Edges, straight. 

Ediographs. 



Electrometers. 

Electroscopes. 
Elevators: 

Fruit. 

Grain. 

Hay. 

Passenger and freight. 
Emasculators. 



Engines: 
Electric. 
Gas. 

Gasoline. 
Oil. 
•Steam. 

Eradieators, w( 



Evaporators, fruit. 
Evaporimeters. 
Eveners. 
Excavators, dentist's. 

Expanders, bulb. 
Expellers, oil. 

Extinguishers, fire. 
Extractors: 

Core. 

Cork. 

Drug. 

Honey. 

Juice." 

Potato peel. 

Wax. 

Eyepieces, drawing. 



.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



85 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Fasteners: 

Belt. 

Casement. 

Clamp. 

Foundation. 

Sash. 

Staple. 
Faucets. 

Felt. 



Ferrules. 

Fertilizers. 

*Figures, metal, costing up to 25 

cents. 
Files: 

Metal. 

Pasteboard, for letters. 

Wood, for letters. 



Fillers: 

Bottle. 

Test tube, glass. 
Films: 

Motion picture. 

Photographic. 
Filters, glass and porcelain: 

Cone. 

Laboratory. 

Pressme. 

Water. 

Wine. 



Facers, cherry. 
Fans: 

Electric. 

Exhaust. 

Gas. 

Ventilating. 



Feathers, ostrich. 



Fences. 
Fenders, fire. 



*Figures, metal, costing over 25 
cents. 



Filing furniture: 

Bases. 

Bookcase. 

Blue print or plan. 

Cap. 

Card index. 

Check file. 

Combination. 

Credit filing. 

Drawer. 

Ends. 

Legal or policy blank. 

Letter. 

Map. 

Tops. 
Fillers: 

Plumber's. 

Tank. 



Filters, metal: 
Cone. 

Laboratory. 
Pressure. 

Ray (metal body). 
Water. 
Wine. 



86 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Finders: 




Camera. 




Microscope. 


Fittings: 




Conduit, electrical. 




Drainage. 




Hose, other than nozzles. 




Pipe. 






Fixtures: 




Electric light. 




Gas. 




Lamp. 


Flags. 






Flagstaffs or masts: 
Metal. 




Wood. 




Flails. 


Flanges. 




Flaimel. 




Flash. 






Flashlights. 


Flasks, other than metal. 


Flasks, "metal. 




Flatirons. 




Flatters. 




Flexiphones. 




Flexotypes. 


Floats: 




Carliureter. 




Closet. 




Dental. 




Engine. 




Micrometer. 




Water register. 






Floroscopes. 


Flom-. 




Fluids: 




0])literating. 




Soldering. 






Flumes. 




Flushei s, sewer. 


Folders: 




Bone. 




Ivory. 




Metal. 




Vertical, file. 




Forage. 




♦Forceps, costing up to 2.J cents. 


=i=Forceps, costing over 2b cents. 




Forges. 


*Forks, costing up to 2.j cents: 


♦Forks, costing over 25 cents: 


Barley. 


Barley. 


Beet. 


Beet. 


Coke. 


Coke. 


Grappling. 


Grappling. 


Meat. 


Meat. 


Pitch. 


Pitch. 


Potato. 


Potato. 



U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1910. 



87 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



*Forks, costing up to 25 cents- 
Continued. 

Spading. 

Table. 

Weeding. 
Forms, l^lank. 



Fungicides. 
Funnels: 

Glass and porcelain. 
*Metal, costing up to 25 cents — 
Enameled. 
Galvanized iron. 
Copper. 
Tin. 



Furniture, printing: 
Metal. 
Wood. 

Fuses. 



*Forks, costing over 25 cents- 
Continued. 

Spading. 

Table. 

Weeding. 
Forms, concrete. 
Frames: 

Blue print. 

Bulletin and chart. 

For ground glass. 

Hay. 

Lock joint. 

Map. 

Miliiograph and mimeograph. 

Photo copy and retouching. 

Picture. 

Poultry picking. 

Printing, camera. 

Salt-brick, for stock. 

Scale. 

Section screen. 

Specimen. 

Spray tank. 

Stencil. 

Vacuum printing. 
Freezers, ice cream. 
Froes. 

Fumigatorium, seed. 
Fumigators. 

*Funnels, metal, costing over 25 
cents: 
Enameled. 
Galvanized iron. 
Copper. 
Tin. 



Furnaces: 
Bomb. 
Cauldron. 
Combustion. 
Crucible. 
Electric. 
MufHe. 
Plumber's. 
Pressure. 
Stereotyping. 



Furrowers. 



PKOPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Gads. 



Gaskets: 
Asbestos. 
Rubber. 



Gauges: 
*Wire, costing up to 25 cents 



Gauze: 

Al)sorl)ent, 

Bandage n 

Copper. 

Hospital. 

Wire. 
Gears. 
Generators, i 



Her. 



lass. 



Gimlets. 

Gimp, upholstering. 

Gingham. 

Gu-ths: 
Canvas. 
Leather. 



Galleys. 
Galvanometers. 



Gatherers, seed. 
Gauges: 

Altitude. 

Ammonia. 

Beer. 

Bevel. 

Carpenter's. 

Center. 

Cotton. 

Cover glass. 

Depth. 

Drill. 

E vaporationt 

Hook. 

Micrometer. 

Paper testing. 

Pressure. 

Rain and snow. 

Rain tip])ing-bucket. 

Recording apparatus. 

Screw thread or screw pitch. 

Seasonal. 

Steam. 

Steel. 

Sm-face. 

Vacuum. 

Water. 

*Wire, costing over 25 cents. 



Generators, other than glass: 

Acetylene. 

Electric. 

Gas. 

Steam. 
Germinators. 



(; ins, cotton. 



IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 IG. 



89 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Glass: 






Florentine. 






Ground. 






Magnitype. 






Maze. 






Photographic. 






Plate. 






Ribbed. 






Sand. 






Window. 






Glasses: 


Glasses: 




Artist's water. 


Engi-aver's. 




Bell. 


Eye. 




Desk. 


Field. 




Drinking. 


Focus, camera. 




(Jauge. 


Hollander, lor reducing arc 


light 


Jelly. 


glare. 




Medicine. 


Optical. 




Test. 


Reading. 




Tintometer. 


Retouching. 




Water. 






Watch. 






Glassware, laboratory. 






Globes, glass. 


Globes, map. 




Gloves: 


Gloves: 




Cotton. 


Leather. 




Rubber. 






Wool. 






Glue. 


G lyoscopes. 

Goggles. 

Gongs. 

Goniometers. 

Gouges. 

Graders: 










Corn. 






Grain. 






Orange. 






Pecan. 






Road. 




Graduates, glass. 


Graduates, metal. 
Granulators. 




Graphite. 


Graphotypes. 




Graters, kitchen. 


Grates: 

Furnace. 

Portable. 
Gratings, diffraction. 
Gravers. 




Grease. 


Greenhouses. 




Grenades, hand, fire extinguishers. 


Griddles, cako. 





90 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Groceries. 



Guiders, register, for printing press 

Guides, for halyards. 

Gum. 

Guns, insect powder. 



Gutta-percha. 



Halyards. 



Handles: 

Auger. 

Ax. 

Clamping, 

Chest. 

File. 

Graver. 

Hammer. 

Hatchet. 

Mop. 

Psychrometer. 

Saw. 

Socket , wood . 

Wooden. 
*Hangers, costing up to 

Box. 

Coat. 

Door. 

Photographic. 

Pipe. 



cents: 



Grinders : 

Beet. 

Bench. 

Disk. 

Feed. 

Grape. 

Meat. 

Peanut butter. 

Tool. 
Grips, Buffalo. 

Groovers, machinist' 
Guards: 

Scale. 

Wire. 



Guns: 
Gopher. 
Shot. 



Haemoglobinometers. 
Haemocytometers. 
Haemotokrits. 
Halters, horse. 

Hames, horse. 

Hammers. 

Hampers, other than clothes. 



''^Hangers, costing over 25 cents: 

Box. 

Coat. 

Door. 

Photographic. 

Pipe. 
Hardies, blacksmith. 
Harness: 

Carriage. 

Cart. 



U. S. DEPARTilENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 IG. 



91 



Expendable. 



Hasps. 



Hinges. 



Holders: 
Burette. 
Card. 
Crayon . 
Crucible. 
Door. 
File. 

Hand, blotter. 
Label. 
Logotype. 



Nonexpendable. 



Harness— Continued. 

Plow. 

Wagon. 
Harpoons. 
Harrows: 

Disk. 

Riding. 

Section. 

Tilting. 
Harvesters. 

Hassocks. 

Hatchets. 

Hats. 

Haversacks.. 

Headers, bolt. 

Headgates. 

Heads: 

Grinding. 

Polishing. 
Heaters: 

Canning outfits. 

Electric. 

Flask. 

Orchard. 

Wagon. 

Water. 
Hectographs. 
Heliographs. 
Helioraeters. 
Heliostats. 
Hillers, celery. 

Hobbles, horse. 
Hods: 

Brick. 

Coal. 

Plaster. 
Hoes: 

Corn. 

Cotton. 

Furnace. 

Garden. 

Horse and wheel. 

Mortar. 
Hoists, chain. 
Holders : 

Atlas. 

Coston signals. 

Insect, microscope. 

Knurl. 

Lens. 

Mail bag. 

Soil can". 

Telescope. 

*Bottle, costing over 25 cent; 



92 



PEOPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Holders— Continued. 


Holders— Cont inued. 


Mop. 


*Caustic, costing over 25 cents. 


Pencil. 


*Copy, costing over 25 cents. 


Pipette. 


^Eyeglass, costing over 25 cents. 


Rubber stamp. 


=*=FiIter, costing over 25 cents. 


Shades, electric. 


*Flask, costing over 25 cents. 


Spit-cup. 


*Lamp, costing over 25 cents. 


Taper. 


•i^Matcli liox, costing over 25 cent s. 


Test tulie. 


*Spoon, costing over 25 cents. 


Toilet paper. 


*Tool, costing over 25 cents. 


*Bottle, costing up to 23 cents. 


*T\vine, costing over 25 cents. 


^Caustic, costing up to 25 cents. 




*Copy, costing up to 25 cents. 
*Eye"giass, costing up to 25 cents. 






*Filter, costing up to 25 cents. 




* Flask, costing up to 25 cents. 




*Lamp, costing up to 25 cents. 
*Matcn box, costing up to25 cents. 






*Spoon, costing up to 25 cents. 




*Tool, costing up to 25 cents. 




*Twine, costing up to 25 cents. 






Holsters: 




Hand axe. 




Revolver. 




Hones: 




Oil. 




Water. 




Hoods: 




Laboratory. 




Oil tank. 


*Hooks, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Hooks, costing over 25 cents: 


Awning. 


Awning. 


Bale. 


Bale. 


Belt. 


Belt. 


Box. 


Box. 


Brush. 


Brush. 


Ceiling. 


Ceiling. 


Clothing. 


Clothing. 


Corn. 


Corn. 


Cotton. 


Cotton. 


Gardea. 


Garden. 


Grape. 


Grape. 


Harness. 


Harness. 


Hay. 


Hav. 


Manure. 


Mahiu-e. 


Picture molding. 


Picture molding. 


Potato. 


Potato. 


Root. 


Root. 


Spout. 


Spout. 


Stake puller. 


Stake puller. 


Weeding. 


Weeding 


*Hooks and eyes, costing up to 25 


*Hooks and eyes, costmg over 2d 


cents. 


cents. 


*Hooks and rings, lantern, costing 


*Hooks and rings, lantern, costing 


up to 25 cents. 


over 25 cents. 




Hoops, cheese. 



TJ. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTUKE, 1916. 



93 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Ice. 



Indexes, loose sheet. 



Ink: 

Addressing-machine. 

Colors (black, red, white, etc ) 

Copying. 

Drawing. 

Duplicating-machine. 

Indelible. 

Marking. 

Numbering-machine. 

Plate-printing. 

Stamp-pad. 

Writing. 
Inkstands, glass, other than self- 
closing. 
Insecticides. 



Hoppers. 

Horizons, artificial. 

Horns, motorcycle. 

Horses, wood, for stitching harness. 

Hose: 

Air. 

Steam. 

Water. 
Hullers. 

Humidors, cigar. 
H j'dr ochr onogr aph s . 
Hydrometers. 
Hygrographs. 
Hygrometers. 
Hygrophants. 
Hygrothermographs. 
Hypsometers. 



Illuminators, microscope. 
Impactographs. 
Impregnators. 
Inclinators, carboy. 
Incubators: 

Chicken. 

Hospital. 

Laboratory. 

Indicators: 

Balance. 

Dial testing. 

Polarity. 

Potentiometer. 

River gauge. 

Speed. 
Inductorium. 
Injectors. 



Inkstands, glass, self-closing. 
Inspirators. 



94 



PKOPERTY EEGULATIONi 



Exi^endable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Instruments: 
*Dissecting, costing up to 25 cents. 
♦Drafting and drawing, costing up 

to 25 cents. 
♦Surgical, costing up to 25 cents. 



Insulators. 

Iron, bars and sheets. 
Irons: 

Angle. 

♦Soldering, costing up to 25 cents. 



Jardiniers, other than metal. 
Jars, glass. 



Jugs. 



Kalsomine. 
Kegs, wooden. 



Keys, locksmiths*. 



Instiniments: 
Castrating. 

♦Dissecting, costing over 25 cents. 
♦Drafting and drawing, costing 

over 25 cents. 
Meteorological. 
Radio-averaging. 
♦Surgical, costing over 25 cents. 
Surveyor's. 

Integrators. 

Irons: 

Branding. 

Calking. 

Electric. 

Flat. 

Sealing. 

♦Soldering, costing over 25 cents. 

Waffle. 
Irrigators. 



Jackets, copper. 
Jacks: 

Hand. 

Hydraulic pump 

Wheel. 
Jardiniers, metal. 
Jars, other than 
Jimmies. 
Jointers. 



Kegs, metal. 
Kettles: 

Asphalt heating. 

Cooking. 

Soil sterilization. 

Steam jacket. 
Keys: 

Signaling. 

Telegraph. 

Typewriter, cushion. 
Kiliis: 

Grain. 

Hay. 

Laboratory. 
Kites. 
Kits: 

Mess. 

Repair. 

Soldering. 

Tool. 



U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTUEE, 19 IG. 



95 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



*Knives, costing up to 25 cents: 

Beet. 

Blacksmith's. 

Broom. 

Butcher's. 

Calkmg. 

Cane. 

Chopping. 

Cigar. 

Collecting. 

Corn. 

Cotton. 

Draw. 

Entrenching. 

Etching. 

Grain. 

Grass. 

Hacking. 

Hay. 

Hemp. 

Huntmg. 

Leather. 

Nurserymen's. 

Palette. 

Pocket. 

Putty. 

Shoe. 

Shoemaker's. 

Surgeon's. 

Table. 

Tobacco. 

Upholsterer's. 
*Kjiobs, costing up to 25 cents. 



Labels: 

Gummed. 

Wooden. 
Lacing, lielt. 



*Ladles, costing up to 25 cents 
*Lamps, costing up to 25 cents 

Acetylene 

Alcohol. 

Arc. 

Blast. 

Carriage. 

Electric. 



Knapsacks. 

Kneaders. 

^Knives, costing over 25 cents: 

Beet. 

Blacksmith's. 

Broom. 

Butcher's. 

Calking. 

Cane. 

Choppuag. 

Cigar. 

Collectmg. 

Com. 

Cotton. 

Draw. 

Entrenching. 

Etching. 

Grain. 

Grass. 

Hacking. 

Hay. 

Hemp. 

Hunthag. 

Leather. 

Nurserymen's. 

Palette. 

Pocket. 

Putty. 

Shoemaker's. 

Surgeon's. 

Table. 

Tobacco. 

Upholsterer's. 

*Knobs, costmg over 25 cents. 

Knurls. 

Kollergangs. 

Kymographs. 



Lact oden simeters . 

Lactometers. 

Ladders. 

*Ladles, costmg over 25 cents. 

*Lamps, costing over 25 cents: 

Acetylene 

Alcohol. 

Arc. 

Blast. 

Carriage. 

Electric. 



96 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Lamps, costing up to 25 cents- 


Lamps, costing over 25 cents — 


Continued. 


Continued. 


Gas. 


Gas. 


Gasoline. 


Gasoline. 


Hanging. 


Hanging. 


Tvaunch. 


Launch. 


Microscope. 


Microscope. 


Motorcycle. 


Motorcycle. 


Oil. 


Oil. 


iniotographic. 


Photographic. 


Polariscope. 


Polariscope. 


Student. 


Student. 


Wagon. 


Wagon. 




T/ances. 




Lanterns: 




Dark room. 




Oil. 




Solar projector. 




Storm warning. 


Lashes, whip. 




Latches, thumb. 




Lath. 






Lathes: 




Arbor. 




Bench. 




Enghie. 




Laimches. 


Lead, bars aud sheets. 






Leads, soundmg. 


Leather. 




Legends: 




High. 




Low. 






Lcggins. 




Lenses: 




Binocular. 




Camera. 




Condensing. 




Dissecting. 




Microscope. 




Reducing. 




Telephoto. 


T.ietters: 


*T>otters, metal, costing over 25 


*Metal, costing up to 25 cents. 


cents. 


Paper, gummed. 






Levels: 




Architect's. 




Carpenter's. 




Ditching. 




Dramage. 




Land. 




Machinist's. 




Mining. 




Surveyor's. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



97 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Lifters: 

Stove. 

Tack. 
Lifts: 

Sash. 

Transom. 
♦Lighters, gas, costing up lo 25 

cents. 
Lime. 
Linen. 

I^ines: 
Mason's, heavy string. 



Lining: 

Cambric. 

Carpet. 
Links: 

Addressograph. 

Fuse. 



Live stock (for experimental pur- 
poses or for slaughter for food 
purposes). 



*Locks, costing up to 25 cents. 
*Locks and chains, costmg up to 2.'! 

cents. 
Logotypes. 



Lubricants. 
Lumber; 

Ash. 

Basswood. 

Birch. 

Cedar. 

Cherry. 

Chestnut. 

Cypress. 

Fir, Douglas. 

Flooring. 

Gum. 

Hemlock. 

Hickory. 

Kiln-drying. 

Mahogany. 

44778°— 16- 



*Lighters, gas, costing over 25 

cents. 



Liners, section. 
Tiines: 

Harness. 

Reel marking. 

Telegraph. 

Telephone. 



Ivinoleum. 

Listers. 

Live stock (not for experimental 

purposes or for slaughter for food 

purposes). 
Loaders: 

Hay. 

Plate rack. 
Lockers: 

Metal. 

Wood. 
*Locks, costing over 25 cents. 
* Locks and chauis, costing over 25 

cents. 

Logs, gas. 
Looseners, beet. 
Lounges. 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Lumber— Contiuued . 

Maple. 

Oak. 

Palings, pine. 

Pickets, pine. 

Pine- 
Georgia, yellow. 
North Carolina, yellow. 
Sugar. 

Vii-ginia loblolly. 
White, eastern. 
White, western. 

Poplar, yellow. 

Ripping. 

Spruce. 

Upson board. 

Veneering. 

Vermilion. 

Walnut, l>lack. 
Lye. 



Nonexpendable. 



Lysimeters. 



Machetes. 
Machines: 

Abrasion. 

Adding. 

Addressograph. 

Baling bag. 

Bag-tying. 

Beet-boring. 

Blue-printing. 

Bran duster. 

Briquette, forming. 

Bulb-scooping. 

Clement-testing. 

Centrifugal. 

Cheek-protecting. 

Cleaning, seed and grain. 

Clipping. 

Corking. 

Cotton-picking. 

Cutter-grinder. 

Dating. 

Determining. 

Developing, photographic. 

Drafting. 

Ductility-testing. 

Drying, photographic. 

Electrostatic. 

Finishing. 

Flange rings. 

Folding. 

For cleaning motion pictures. 

For filling seed packets. 

Gas and mixing. 



T*. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGETCULTURE, 1010. 



99 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Machines— Continued. 

Glazing. 

Grafting. 

Grass-stripping. 

Hardness testing, and motor. 

Kneading and mixing. 

Letter-opening. 

Level. 

Map-circling. 

Mastia. 

Milling. 

Miter. 

Mortising. 

Motion-picture. 

Numbering. 

Paper-cutting. 

Paper-fastening. 

Perforating. 

Pipe-lifting. 

Planing and jointing. 

Printing, for motion pictures. 

Reducing. 

Riveting. 

Road-testing. 

Roller copying. 

Sampling and mixing. 

Saw and saw setting. 

Sealing, envelope. 

Separating. 

Sewing. 

Shaking. 

Silage. 

Sizing. 

Smoking. 

Splitting. 

Stemming. 

Stencil. 

Stirring. 

Tea. 

Testing. 

Tile. 

Triplicating. 

Washing. 

Wheat tempering. 
Magnets: 

Electric. 

Rainfall. 
Magnifiers: 

Achromatic. 

Aplanatic. 

Hand. 

Pocket. 

Slide rule. 

Tripod. 
Mailers. 



100 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Mallets, round and square. 




Manometers. 


Mantles, gas-lamp. 




Maps: 


Maps: 


Pocket. 


Glass, large, weather. 


Post route. 


Wall. 


Weather, paper. 






Markers: 




Object. 




Time. 


Mashers, potato. 




Matches, safety. 






Matrices. 


Mats, lantern-slide. 


Mats: 




Cocoa. 




Rubber. 




Steel. 




Straw, 




Wire. 




Matting. 
Mattocks. 






Mattresses. 




Mauls: 


^Measures, costing up to 25 cents: 


♦Measures, costing over 25 cents: 


Cover, glass. 


Cover, glass. 


Glass tubing. 


Glass tubing. 


Grain, sets. 


Grain, sets. 


Loaf, volumetric. 


Loaf, volumetric. 


Map. 


Map. 




Megaphones. 




Meggers, constant pressure. 




Meteorographs, kite: 


Meters: 


Meters: 


Acid. 


Air. 


Alcohol. 


Alkali. 




Electric. 




Electrostatic. 




Gas. 




Photographic. 




Voltmeter. 




Water. 




Wet. 




Metronomes. 




Metrumaumas. 


Mica. 




Micrometers: 


Micrometers: 


Disk. 


Caliper. 




Filer. 




Ocular. 




I'aper testing. 




Secular. 




Slide. 




Stage. 




Microplanoscopas. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



101 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Milk. 
Milliuette. 



Mitts, stereotype. 



Models. 

Moisteners, envelope. 
Molding. 
Mops, floor. 

Mortars and pestles, glass or porce- 
lain. 



Microscopes: 

Binocular. 

Chemical. 

Compound. 

Dissecting. 

Petrographic. 

Portable. 

Projecting. 
Microspectroscopes. 
Microtomes: 

Automatic. 

Ether freezing. 

Hand. 

Rotary. 

Sliding. 

Milliammeters. 

Milliographs. 

Millivoltmeters. 

Mills: 

Bone. 

Cane. 

Coffee. 

Com, 

Drug. 

Feed. 

Flour. 

Grating. 

Grinding. 

Grist. 

Jar. 

Nut. 

Paint. 

Pulverizing. 

Wind. 
Mimeographs. 
Mirrors. 

Mixers: 
Bread. 
Concrete. 



Mortars and pestles, 

glass or porcelain. 
Motor cycles. 
Motors. 
Molds: 

Butter. 

Cement. 

Cheese. 

Cigar. 



other than 



102 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 





Molds— Continued. 




Clay. 




Jar. 




Metal. 




Paper. 




Tile. 


Mounts: 




Botanical. 




Card. 




Rubber stamp. 




Specimen. 






Movers, car. 




Mowers: 




Hand. 




Horse. 


Mucllaf^'o. 




Mugs, other than metal. 


Mugs, metal. 




Multigraphs. 


Muslin, oiled. 




*Muzzles, costing up to 2') cents: 


*Muzzles, costing over 25 cents: 


Dog. 


Dog. 


Horse. 


Horse. 




Myocardiogra])hs. 


Nails. 




Napkins: 




I.inen. 




1 'a] >er. 




Ntipi)ies. 




Needles: 


Needles: 


Darning. 


Aneurism. 


Dissecting. 


Cement testing. 


Engraving. 


Tvitliographic. 


Hypodermic. 




Sewing. 






Neostyles. 




Nephoscopes. 


Nets, insect. 


Nets: 




Collecting. 




Ear. 




Fly. 




Horse. 


Netting: 




Fly. 




Laundry. 




Mosquito. 




Wire. 






Nippers. 


Nipples: 




plumbing. 


_ 


Rubber. 






Nitrometers. 




Nose pieces: 




Mierotome. 




Microscope. 



TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



103 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Nozzles: 




Hose. 




Spray. 


Nuts. 




Oakum. 






Oarlocks. 




Oars. 




Objectives: 




Microscope. 




Microtome. 




Oculars: 




Micrometer. 




Microscope. 




Odometers. 


Oil: 




Benzino. 




Castor. 




Cooking. 




Cottonseed. 




Cutting. 




Emulsifying, 




Fish. 




Floor. 




Gasoline. 




Harness. 




Kerosene. 




Lard. 




Linseed. 




Neat's-foot. 




raraffin. 




Petroleinn. 




Porpoise-jaw. 




Sperm. 




Turpentine. 




Oilcloth. 




*Oilers, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Oilers, costing over 25 cents. 


Openers: 
Can. 


Openers: 
Box. 


Envelope. 


Car. 




Crate. 




Opisometers. 




Outfits: 




Bee rearing. 




Canning. 




Color. 




Determining apparatus. 




Electrolytic. 




Engraver's. 




Hay stacking. 




Loading, for cartridges. 




Marking. 




Paint spraying. 




Photomicrographic. 




Plane table. 



104 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Outfits — Continued. 




Polishing. 




Ranger's filing. 




Stereotypmg. 




Tattooing. 




Telegraphone. 


Ovals, (.•elluloid. 






Ovens: 




Drying. 




Electric. 




Gas. 




Hot-air. 




Inflating. 




Muffle. 




Hteam. 




Stove. 




Vacuum. 




Water. 




Overalls. 




Packers: 




Butter. 




Subsurface. 


Packets, first-aid. 




racking, hoof. 




Paddles, hard ni])l)er, iilioto- 


Paddles, canoe. 


graphic. 




Pads: 


Pads: 


Desk. 


Horse, zinc. 


Fell, for Bates numbering-ma- 




chine. 




Horse, other than zinc. 




Ink. 




Rubber stamp. 




Tablecloth. 




Typewriter. 




Writ ing. 






Paintings, oil, framed. 


Paints. 






Palettes: 




Artist's. 




Bookbinder's. 




Type. 




Panniers. 


*Pans, costing up to 25 cents: 


* Pans, costing over 25 cents: 


Agate. 


Agate. 


Aluminum. 


Almntnum. 


Copper. 


Copper. 


Enameled. 


Enameled. 


Galvanized iron. 


(ialvanized iron. 


Granite. 


Granite. 


Iron. 


Iron. 


Tin. 


Tin. 



S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTITBE, 19 K 



105 



Expendable. 



Paper: 
Adding-machine. 
Addressing-machine. 
Asbestos. 
Backing. 
Billing-machine. 
Binding, for lantern slides. 
Black print. 
Blotting. 
Blue print. 
Bond. 
Cambric. 
Cap. 
Carbon. 

Clotli-lined, light lilue. 
Computing-machine. 
Cover. 

Cross-section. 
Drawing. 

Duplicating-machine. 
Filter. 
Fly. 

Gummed. 
Impression. 
Ledger. 
Lens. 
Letlor. 

Linen mounted. 
Lithograph. 
Litmus. 
Manila. 
Manifold. 
Map. 

Onionskin. 
Paraffin. 
I 'hotographie. 
I'hotostat. 
Platmum. 
Press copy. 
Printing. 
Trocessr 
Profile. 
Poofmg. 
Sand. 
Scratch. 
Specification. 
Tabulating. 
Tissue. 
Toilet. 
Tracing. 
Transfer. 
Tyjiewriter. 

White, for mounting drawing: 
Wrapping. 
Writmg. "" 



Nonexpendable. 



Pantographs. 



106 



VV.i )PKin Y UECi ULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Paraffin. 

Partitions, other tlian metal. 

Paste: 
Insect. 
Office. 
Soldering. 

Patches, cloth, gummed. 
*Pawls, costing up to 25 ceut^ 

Galvanized iron. 

Tin. 

Wood. 



♦Pencils, cost nig up to 1'5 ceuls: 

Artist's. 

Bow. 

Carpenter's. 

Colors (black, bh;e, red, etc.). 

Drafting and drawing. 

For writing on glass. 

Indelible. 

Office. 

Railroad. 
Penliolders. 
PenPoints. 

*renracks, costing up to 25 cent^ 
*Pens, costtng up to 25 cents: 

Barograph and thermograi)h. 

Cyclostyle. 

Drafting and drawing. 

Duplicating. 

Fountain. 

Lettering and marking. 

Lithographing. 

Register. 

Ruling. 

Percolators: 
*Metal, costing up to 2.") cents. 
Other than metal. 



Pictures and photograph 
framed. 



Nonexpendable. 



Paraliolas. 
Parachutes. 



Partitions, metal. 
Passometers, 



Pasteurizers. 



*Pawls, costmg over 25 cents: 

Galvanized iron. 

Tin. 

Wood. 
Peavies. 
Pedometers. 
♦Pencils, costing over 25 cents: 

Artist's. 

Bow. 

Carpenter's. 

Colors (black, l>lue, red, etc.). 

Drafting and drawing. 

For writing on glass. 

Indelii)lc. 

OlFice. 

Railroad. 



*Penracks, costing over 25 cents. 
*Pens, costing over 25 cents. 

Barograph and thermograph. 

Cyclostyle. 

Draft ing and drawiiig. 

Duplicating. 

Fount;) in. 

Lettering and marking. 

Lithographing. 

Register. 

Ruling. 
Pentrometers. 
Percolators: 

♦Metal, costuig over 25 cents. 

Phantascopes. 
Phantographs. 
Phonendoscopes. 
Phonographs: 

Dictating machines. 

Shaving macliines. 
Photostats. 
IMckers, fruit. 
Picks. 
Pictures and photographs, framed. 



r. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGETCULTITRE, 1016. 



107 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Pillows: 




Feather. 




Felted cotton. 




Hair. 




Pincers. 


Pinchoocks, 




Pins: 




Clothes. 




Escutcheon. 




Gauge. 




Insect. 




Office. 




Photographic. 




Rolling. 




Safety. 




Steel spring, cotter. 




Surveyor's. 




Taper, steel. 




Pipe: 
Brass. 




Iron. 




Lead. 




Steel. 




Stone. 




Tile. 




Tin. 




*Pipes, blow, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Pipes, blow, costing over 25 cents. 


Pipettes. 




Pitch. 




Pitchers: 


Pitchers: 


China. 


Plated. 


Enameled. 


Silver. 


Glass. 




Ciranite. 




Porcelain. 




Stone. 




Tin. 






Planes. 




Planimeters: 




Compensation. 




Precision rolling 




Planotypes. 




Planters: 




Hand. 




Horse. 


Plants, for insecticidal and fungi- 


Plants: 


cidal experiments. 


Heating. 




Lighting. 

Power. 

Refrigerating. 




Plasticine. 






Platens, typewriter. 


Plates: 


Plates: 


Base. 


Aluminum.. 


Corner. 


Copper. 


*Dining, costing up to 25 tents. 


Dies and screw. 


Electrotype. 





108 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Plates— Continued. 


Plates— Continued. 


Ferrotype. 


*Dming, costing over 25 cents 


Floor and ceiling. 


Draw. 


Hook. 


Heat. 


Lantern-slide. 


Map. 


Photographif. 


Orface. 


Push. 


Screen. 


Stereot>T)e. 


Steel. 




Test. 




Platforms, for farm machinery. 




Platinum, bars and sheets. 




Plethysomographs. 




Pliers. 




Plows: 




Hand. 




Horse. 




Ice. 




Snow. 


Plowshares 




Plugs: 




Basin. 




Fuse. 




Gun metal. 




Insulator. 




Receptacle, 




Safety. 
Wooden. 






Plungers: 




Beet. 




Plumber's. 




Pneumatometers. 


Pointers, pencil. 


Pointers, spoke. 


Points, glazier's. 




Pokers: 




Fire. 




Stove. 






Polariscopes. 




Polarizers. 


Poles, wooden: 


Poles, iron: 


Telegi-aph. 


Pike. 


Telephone. 


Range. 


Window. 


Telegraph. 


• 


Telephone. 


Policemen, rubber. 




Polish: 




Furniture. 




Metal. 




Rottenstone. 




Stove. 






Polymeters. 




Poppers, corn. 


Porcelain, lal)oratory. 






Portieres. 


Posts: 




Binding. 




Fence. 





U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 19 1( 



109 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Posts— Continued. 




Metal. 




Wood. 






Potentiometers. 


*Pots, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Pots, costing over 25 cents: 
Coffee. 


Coffee. 


Cooking. 


Cooking. 


Fire. 


Fire. 


Flower. 


Flower. 


Cxlue. 


Glue. 


Grease. 


Grease. 


Lve. 


Lye. 


Marking. 


Marking. 


Sprinkling. 


Spruikling. 


Tea. 


Tea. 


Watering. 


Watering. 




Pouches. 


Pounders, steak. 




Powder: 




Emery. 




Etching. 




Horse. 




Insect. 




Tracing cloth. 






Preservers, life. 


Presses, botanical. 


Presses: 




Arbor. 




Beet. 




Cheese. 




Cigar. 




Copying. 




Cork. 




Cotton. 




Drill. 




Drug. 




Filter. 




Fruit. 




Hand, logotype. 




Hydraulic. 




Kodak, dry mounting. 

Mud. 

Printing. 






Pulp. 




Testing. 




Tile, roofing. 




Wax. 




Pressuregraphs. 




Prickers. 




Printers, photographic. 


Prints, butter, other than metal. 


Prints, butter, metal. 




Prisms: 




Heliostat. 




Reflecting. 




Wedge. 




Probes, surgical. 




Prongs, printer's. 



110 



PROPERTY REGTTLATTONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Protectors: 




Book corner. 




Pencil point. 




Telephone (lightning). 






Protractors, drawing. 


Provisions. 






Pnmers, tree. 




Psychrographs. 




I'sychrometers. 




PutTs, wool. 




Pullers: 




Beet. 




Nail. 




Stake. 




Staple. 




Stump. 




Weed. 


Pulleys: 


Pullevs: 


Awiiing. 


Friction clutch . 


Sash. 




Shade and swivel. 




*Pulleys and tackle, costing np to 


*Pullevs and tackle, costing over 


25 cents. 


25 cents. 


Pulls: 




Door, drawer, sash, etc. 




Window shade. 






Pulpers: 




Caxaca. 




Coffee. 




Pulverizers. 




Pumps: 




Acid. 




Air. 




Alcohol. 




Brine. 




Centrifugal. 




Filter. 




Force. 




Mercurv. 




Oil. ' 




Pressure. 




Rotary. 




Sewer. 




Spray. 




Steaih. 




Suction. 




Vacuum. 




Water. 


♦Punches, costing up to 25 cents: 


^Punches, costing over 25 cents: 


Card. 


Card. 


Carpenter's. 


Carpenter's. 


Harness. 


Harness. 


Leather. 


Leather. 


Marking. 


Marking. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRTCULTUEE, 1916. 



Ill 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Punches, costing up to 25 cents- 


Punches, costing over 25 cents- 


Continued. 


Continued. 


Nail. 


NaiL 


Blacksmith's. 


Blacksmith's. 


Macliinist's. 


Machmist's. 


Office. 


Office. 




Pyrheliometers. 




Pyrometeis. 




Quadrants. 




Quirts. 


*Racks, costing up to 25 cents: 
Book. 
Bottle. 


*Racks, costing over 25 cents: 
Book. 
Bottle. 


Cage. 


' Cage. 


Coat and hat. 


Coat and hat. 


Drain. 


Drain. 


Drawing. 


Drawmg. 


Galley. 


Galley. 


Grain. 


Gram. 


Hay. 


Hay. 


Hose. 


Hose. 


Laboratory. 


Laboratory. 


Lantern slide. 


Lantern slide. 


Magazine and manuscript. 


Magazme and manuscript. 


Motion-picture developing. 


Motion-picture developing. 


Ocular and objective. 


Ocular and objective. 


Photographic. 


Photographic. 


Rubber-stamp, revolving. 


Rubber-stamp, revolving. 


Stencil. 


Stencil. 


Test-tube, wood. 


Test-tulje, metal. 


Towel. 


Towel. 




Radiators: 




Electric. 




Gas. 




Hot water. 




Steam. 


Railings, wooa. 


Railings, metal. 


Raisers, bread. 






Rakes: 




Asphalt. 




Fire. 




Garden. 




Hay. 




Horse. 




Rams, hydraulic. 




Ratchets, boilermaker's. 




Razors. 




Readers, meniscus. 




Reapers. 




Receivers, telegraph and telephone. 



112 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Reducers. 



Reglets. 

Regulators, other than metal: 

Gas. 

Pressure. 

Speed. 

Thermo. 

Renewals, l.attery. 



Resistances, electric. 



Rests, wood: 
Arm. 
Book. 
Foot. 



Ribbons: 
Computing-machine. 
Dating-starap. 
Duplicating-machine. 
Silk. 
Typewriter. 



Receptacles, or face. 
Rechenmaschiues . 
Recorders: 

Electric calender. 

Evaporation. 

Solar and sky radiation. 

Simshine. 

Telegraph. 
Rectifiers. 

Reels: 

Cable. 

Hose. 

Wire. 
Reflectors. 
Refractometers. 
Refrigerators. 
Registers: 

Anemometer. 

Double and triple. 

Magnet. 

Manograph. 

Tally. 

Telegraph. 

Regulators, metal: 

Gas. 

Pressure. 

Speed. 

Thermo. 
Relays, telegraph. 

Renovators: 

Alfalfa. 

Carpet. 
Repeaters, telegraph. 



Resonators, telegraph. 
Respirators, metal. 



Retorts: 

Copper. 

Iron. 
Revolvers. 
Rewinders, film. 
Rheostats. 



Ricers, potato. 



IT. R. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICITLTtTRE, 1910. 



113 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Rifles. 




Ringers, hog. 


Rings: 




Harness. 




Hog. 




Insulating. 




Kev. 




Milfin. 




Screw. 




- 


Ripeners, cream. 


Rivets: 




Brass. 




Copper. 




Iron. 




Tin. 






Roasters; 




Coffee. 




Meat. 




Robes, lap. 


Rods: 


Rods: 


Bamboo. 


Stadia. 


Brass. 


Surveying. 


Copper. 


Telemeter. 


Glass. 




Steel. 




Rollers: 


Rollers: 


Window shade. 


Cement. 


♦Print, photographic, costing up 


Duplicating. 


to 25 cents. 


Land. 




*Print, photographic, costing 




over 25 cents. 




Printing press. 




Road. 


Rolls: 


Rolls: 


Gelatin, for duplicator. 


Bed. 
Bit. 
Chart. 






Instrument. 


Roofing: 




Cement. 




Felt. 




Paper. 




Paroid. 




Proslate. 




Slag. 




Tile. 




Tin. 




Ropes: 




Cotton. 




Hemp. 

Manila. 






Rubber. 


Rugs. 

Rules and rulers: 


Rules and rulers: 


Brass, printing. 


Carpenter's. 


Carboard, scales. 


Chain. 


♦Office, costing up to 25 cents. 


Drafting and drawing. 



114 



PEOPERTY KEGULATIONS, 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Sand. 
Sapolio. 
Sash, hotbed. 

Saucers: 

Flower-pot. 

Paint. 
Sawdust. 



Scales, for wind sheet. 



Scalpels, dissectmg. 



Rules and rulers — Continued. 

Metric. 

Parallel. 

Plate glass. 

Slide. 

*Office, costing over 25 cents. 
Rvinabouts. 



Saccharometers. 
Saddles. 
Safes. 
Samplers: 

Grain. 

Peat. 



Satchels. 



Saws: 

Bone. 

Carpenter's. 

Coping. 

Hack, with frame. 

Ice. 

Jeweler's. 

Metal splitt^g. 

Power, cut-off. 

I'runing. 
Scabbards. 
Scales: 

Ash. 

Architect's. 

Beam. 

Coin. 

Counter. 

Engmeer's. 

H lemoglobinometer. 

Hospital. 

Ice. 

Letter. 

Metric, weighing. 

Platform. 

Pocket. 

Steelyard. 
Scallops. 

Scarfs, dresser. 

Sciopticons. 

Scissors: 

Dissecting. 

Grape. 



V. S, DEPAKTMENT OF AGEICULTURE, 1016. 



115 



> 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Scissors— Continued. 




Office. 




Surgeon's 




Scoops: 




Grading. 




Horse. 




Seed. 




Trenching. 


Scrapers: 


Scrapers: 


*Box, costing up to 25 cents. 


Boat. 


*Ice, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Box, costing over 25 cents. 




Engraver's. 




*Ice, costing over 25 cents. 




Road. 




Tube. 




Screens: 




Desk. 




Door. 




Fireplace. 




Fly. 




Gravel, soil, and sand. 




Micro. 




Photographic. 




Pulp. 




Stereopticon. 




Window. 


*Screw drivers, costing up to 25 


*Screw drivers, costing over 25 


cents. 


cents. 


Screws, metal and wood. 


Screws, bench. 




Scribes, timber. 




Sealers, can. 


Seals: 


Seals: 


Car, lead and wire. 


Cotton. 




OfTicial. 




Seamers. 




Seats, closet. 




Sectional furniture: 




Bases. 




Bill. 




Blue print or plan. 




Book. 




Card index. 




Check file. 




Commercial. 




Credit filing. 




Combination. 




Cupboard and closet. 




Daily report. 




Drawer. 




Electrotype. 




Ends. 




FiUers. 




Herbarium. 




Insurance. 




Legal document. 



116 



PROPEKTY RPXiULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Seeds. 



Sets: 
Nail. 
Rivet. 



Shades: 

Electric light. 

Eye. 

Lamp. 
Shafting. 
Shalvers, glass and porcelain. 



*Shavers, ice, costing up to 25 cents. 



Sectional furnitvire — Continued. 

I^etter file, vertical or horizontal. 

Loose leaf. 

Map. 

I'hoto and negative. 

Pigeon hole. 

Reducing. 

Shannon. 

Storage. 

Tops. 

Transfer. 

Voucher. 
Sectors and mountings. 
Seeders: 

Cultivator and drill. 

Garden. 

Seekers, plant. 

Seines. 

Seismographs. 

Seismoscopes. 

Separators: 

Cream. 

Pulp. 

Seed. 
Sets: 

Doubletrees. 

Fireplace. 

Grappling iron. 

Staining. 

Swage. 

Testing, telegraph. 

Toilet. 

Tool. 

Triple trees. 

Veterinary instruments. 
Settees. 
Setters, plant. 
Sextants. 



Shakers, metal. 

Shapers. 

Sharpeners: 

Cork-borer. 

Microtome knife. 

Pencil. 
*Shavers, ice, costing over 25 cents. 
Shawls. 
Shears: 

Brush. 

Edging. 

Grape. 



TT. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 10 IG. 



117 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 






Shears— Continued. 






Grass. 






Hedge. 






Horse. 






Office. 






Photographic. 






Pruning. 






Sheep. 






Snagging. 






Vegetable. 


Sheeting: 






Cotton. 






Rubber. 






Sheets, bed. 




Sheets, cotton gathering. 
Shellers: 

Corn. . 

Pea. 

Peanut. 
Shelters: 

Instrument. 

Lantern. 


Shelves or s 


lelving, wood. 


Shelves or shelving, metal. 


Shields: 




Shields: 


Asbestos. 




Soil tube. 


Eraser. 




Wind. 


Finger. 






Stove. 






Shingles. 




Shirts. 


Shoes: 




Shoes: 


Horse. 




Men's. 


Mule. 




Women's. 
Shovels: 

Dirt. 

Fire. 

Scoop. 

Snow. 

Tiling. 
Showerheads, with valves (shower 

bath). 
Sliredders, vegetable. 














Shrinkers, tire and axle. 






Shutters, camera. 






Shuttles, tvpewriter. 






Sickles. ' 


*Sieves, flour, costing up to 25 cents. 


*Sieves, flour, costing over 25 cents. 






Sifters. 






Sights, wood level. 


Signals: 






Coston or 


hurricane. 




Index. 




Signographs. 


Signs, office 




Signs, storm-warning tower. 


Silk, oiled. 




Silos. 
Singletrees. 



118 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Snaps, chain. 



Soap: 

Castile. 

Harness. 

Ivory. 

Laundry. 

Liquid. 

Oil. 

Powder. 

Scouring. 

Shaving. 

Soft. 

Tar. 

Toilet. 
Sod. 
Solder. 



Nonexpendable. 





Sinks: 
Alberene stone. 
Iron. 
Porcfelain. 


Siphons, glass. 


Skiffs. 
Skillets. 


Skimmers. 
Skins, chamois. 


Skis. 


Slabs, for mixing paints: 
Board. 
Durostone. 
Terra-cotta. 


Sledges. 
Sleds. 


Sleeves, comiector: 




Copper. 
Rul)her. 


Slicers. 
Slickers. 


Slides: 
Dark. 

Plate holder. 
Quartz. 

Slugs. 


Slings: 

Hay, 

Horse, 
Slopes, desk. 



Smokers, Ijee. 

Snaths, scythe. 
Snips, tin. 



Sorters: 

Card. 

File. 

Potato. 
Sounders, telegraph. 
Spacers. 



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119 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


*Spatulas, costing up to 25 cents. 


='■• Spatulas, costing over 25 cents. 




Spears. 




Spectographs. 




Spectroscopes. 




Speculums. 




Speedometers. 




Spherometers. 




Sphygmomanometers. 


Spigots, wood. 


Spigots, metal. 


Spikes. 






Splicers. 


Splices. 




Splines. 






Splitters. 




Spokeshayes. 


Sponges. 




Spools, lor small wire. 


Spools, for Pathe camera. 
*Spoons, costing oyer 25 cents: 

Drill. 

Horn. 


♦Spoons, costing up to 25 cents: 
Drill. 
Horn. 


Laboratory. 


Laboratory. 


Table. 


Table. 




Sprayers: 




Dust 




Insect. 




Spreaders. 




Spreads. 


Springs: 


Springs: 


Brass. 


Bed. 


Door. 


Bending. 


Fan. 




Steel. 






Sprinklers: 




Bulb. 




Lawn. 




Plant. 




Spuds, dandelion. 




Spurs. 


♦Squares, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Squares, costing oyer 25 cents: 


Carpenter's. 


Carpenter's. 
Machinist's. 


Machinist's. 


Squeezers: 


*Squeezers: 


Glass. 


Other than glass, costing over 25 


*Othej- than glass, costing up to 


cents. 


25 cents. 




Staffs, Jacob's. 






Stages: 




Mechanical. 




Micrometer. 




Photographic. 


Stamps: 


Stamps: 


Alphabetical and numerical sets. 


Canceling. 


Dating, ruliber. 


Dating, metal. 


Hand, rubber. 


Hand, metal. 



•120 



niOPEKTY IJEGULATTONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendalile. 



Stamps— Contiiiued . 


Stamps— Continued. 


"Indelil^le" products. 


Meat inspection, other than 


Meat inspection, paper. 


paper. 
Stanchior 




Stands: 




Balance. 




Bedside. 




Blacking. 




Boiler. 




Book und magazine. 




Camera. 




Chart. 




Condenser. 




Culture. 




Dissecting. 




Filter. 




Giass tuhing. 




Instrument. 




Letterpress. 




Microscope. 




Olfice. 




Paper cutter. 




Pipe. 




Reaction. 




Reagent. 




Retort. 




Sterilizer. 




Typewriter. 




Umbrella. 




Water-cooler. 




Wash. 


Staples: 




Carpenter's. 




For Boston stitcher. 




Paper-fastening machines. 






Starters, electric. 




Statoscopes. 




Statuettes. 


Steel, liars and sheets. 






Steels, knife sharpening. 


Stencils, paper. 


Stencils, metal. 




Stereopticons. 




Stereoscopes. 




Sterilizers: 




Hot air and steam. 




Serum. 




Surgical dressing. 




Stethoscopes. 


Sticks: 


Sticks: 


For cutting machine. 


Printer's. 


Measuring. 






Stills: 




Alcohol. 




Water. 


Stirrers. 






Stocks, brayer and roller. 



S. DEPARTMENT OF AGKTCFLTURE, 1910. 



121 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


*Stones, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Stones, costing over 25 cents: 


Carborundum. 


Carborundum. 


Emery. 


Emery. 


Grind. 


Grind. 


Printer's. 


Printer's. 


Lithographer's. 


Lithograplier's. 


Oil. 


Oil. 




Stools: 




Laboratory. 




Office. 


Stoppers: 




Basin, witli plugs. 




Rubber. 




*Stops, bench, costing up to 2.') 


*Stops, bench, costing over 25 cents. 


cents. 


Stoves: 




Alcohol. 




Camp. 




Coal and wood. 




Electric. 




Gas. 




Gasoline and oil. 




Hot blast. 


*Strainers, costing up to 25 cents: 


*3trainers, costing over 25 cents: 


(iasoline. 


Gasoline. 


Kitchen. 


Kitchen. 


Milk. 


Milk. 


Taint. 


Paint. 


Straps: 


Straps: 


Binder or tie. " 


Trunk. 


Box. 




Leather, other than trunk. 




Pipe. 






Stretchers: 




Carpet. 




Wire. 


Strips, T>inding, cloth. 


Strops. 


Styli. 
Supports: 


Supports: 


Book. 


Anemometer. 




Camera. 




Filter. 




Funnel. 




Instrument shelter, steel. 




Laboratory. 
Nephoscope. 




Rain and snow gauge. 




Sunshine recorder. 




Thermometer. 




Wind vane. 


Surcingles. 






Siu-reys. 




Swedges. 




Sweepers: 




Carpet. 




Street. 



122 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Sweeps, cultivator. 
*Switches, electric, costing up to 25 
cents: 

Battery. 

KJnife." 

Panel. 

Pendant. 

Snap. 

Telegraph, 



Tablets, writing. 
Tabs, index. 

Tacks: 

Basket. 

Carpet. 

Matting. 

Numerical. 

Thumb. 

Upholstering. 
Tags: 

Index. 

Key. 

Merchandise. 

Tin, meat inspection. 
Tallow. 



♦Switches, electric, costing over 25 
cents: 

Battery. 

Knife. 

Panel . 

Pendant. 

Snap. 

Telegraph. 
Syml)ols, map. 
Syringes: 

Antitoxin. 

Battery. 

Fountain. 

Hydrometer. 

Hypodermic. 

Inoculating. 

Veterinary. 



Tables: 
Dining. 
Drawing. 
Kitchen. 
I^aboratory. 
Microscope. 
Office. 

Taxidermist's. 
Titration. 
Traverse plane. 
Warming. 



Tachometers, 



Tags: 
Identification, motorcycle. 



Tampers. 
Tanks: 

Acetylene. 

Brine. 

Compound air pump. 

Digester. 

Evaporating. 

Expansion. 

Filter. 



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123 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Tanks— Continued. 




Fumigating and insecticide. 




Cas and gasoline. 




Hypo. 




Laboratory. 




Motion pictiu-e. 




Spraying. 




Stock and supply. 




Urinal. 




Vacuum. 




Wash. 




Water. 




Water-closet. 


Tape: 




Adhesive. 




Asbestos, listing. 




Cotton and linen. 




Gummed, paper. 




Eed. 




Rubber. 




Tapers, wax. 






Tapes: 




Chain. 




Linen. 




Microphoto. 




Steel. 




Wire. 




Taps: 




Machine. 




Pipe. 


Tar. 






Tedders. 




Telegraphones. 




Telemeters. 




Telephones. 




Telescopes. 




Telethermograplis. 




Telethermoscopes. 




Templets. 




Tenaculae. 




Tents. 


Terminals, cable. 






Testers: 




Battery. 




Butter. 




Cement. 




Corn seed. 




Elastic. 




Fiber. 




Folding. 




Gauge. 




Glue 




Gluten. 




Grain. 




Leather. 



124 



PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Testers— Continued. 




Linen. 




Milk. 




Oil. 




Opacity. 




Paper. 




Rubber. 




Speed shutter, camera. 




Tliernionietor. 




^Vater. 




Tlicodolifps. 




Thcniio^raphs. 




Tlicruioineters: 




Armored. 




Chemical. 




Clinical. 




Electric. 




Exposed. 




Maximum. 




Minimum. 




Recording. 




Soil. 




Telethermograph. 




Tliermopiles.' 




Tliermostats. 


Thimbles: 




Calking. 




Extraction. 




Rope. 




Sewing. > 


- 


Thread: 




Flax gilling. 




Sewing. 






Threaders. 




Threshers. 


Tile. 






Tiles, pill. 


Tin: 




Block. 




Japanned. 




Pig. 






Tintometers. 


Toasters. 






Tomahawks. 




Tongs: 




Blacksmith's. 




Chain. 




Crucible. 




Fire. 




Ice. 




Pipe. 




Spittoon. 




Tongues: 




Carriage. 




Truck. 




Wagon. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 1916. 



125 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 




Tools: 




Blacksmith's. 




Boring. 




Carpenter's. 




Electrician's. 




Embossing. 




Knurling. 




Lathe. 




Milling. 




Plumber's. 


I 


Tiling. 


1 


Tops: 


i 


Tile table. 




Tripod tilting. 




Torches: 




Alcohol. 




Gasoline. 




Hot blast. 




Laboratory. 




Soldering. 


Towels: 




Bath. 




Office, cloth or paper. 






Towers, storm- warning. 




Tracers. 




Traces, harness. 




Tracks, steel. 




Trammels. 




Transformers. 




Transits: 




Architect's. 




Explorer's. 




Sm'veyor's. 




Transplanters. 


Traps: 


Traps: 


Bird. 


Anmaal, steel. 


Fly. 


Plumber's. 


Moth. 




Mouse. 




Rat. 




Roach. 




Trays: 


Trays: 


Desk. 


Card. 


Hard rubber. 


Copper and aluminum. 


Laboratory, glass and porcelain. 


Cnunb. 


Pasteboard. 


Flask. 


Pen or pin. 


Laboratory, metal. 


Porcelain. 


Seed. 


Shipping. 
White enameled. 


Silver-plated, pitcher. 


Trees, for insecticidal and fungi- 




cidal experiments. 






Trephines. 




Trestles. 



126 PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 


Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Triangles, pipestem. 


Triangles: 




Drawing and drafting. 




Platinum. 




Trichinoscopes. 




Triers: 




Butter. 




Cheese. 




Ham. 




Trimmers: 




Hedge. 




Hoof. 




Paper. 




Paraffin block. 




Photo. 




Tree. 


Tripods, laboratory, 


Tripods: 




Camera. 




Heliometer. 




Sketching. 




Surveyor's. 




Trocars. 




Troughs: 




Developing. 




Feed. 




Mercury. 




Water. 




Trousers. 




Trowels: 




15ricklaver's. 




Garden. 




Plasterer's. 




Trucks: 




Book. 




Farm. 




Motor. 




Office. 




Platfonn. 




Wagon. 




Trimks: 




Camera and plate. 




Specimen. 




Traveling. 


Tubes: 


Tubes: 


Barometer. 


Angle measuring. 


Blowing;. 


Beet boring. 


Blue-print. 


Pitot. 


Burette. 


Pelligot. 


Calcium chloride. 


Roentgen (X-ray), 


Colorimeter. 


Soda lime. 


Combustion. 


Soil. 


Extraction. 


Stomach. 


Lamp. 


Vacuiun. 


Mailing. 


Resistance. 


Medicine. 





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127 



Expendable. 


Nonexpendable. 


Tubes— Continued. 




Pasteboard. 




Quartz. 




Specimen. 




T and Y form. 




Test. 




Tin. 




Tubing: 




Brass. 




Drainage. 




Gasket. 




Glass. 




Mottled. 




Rubber. 






Tubs: 




Foot. 




Plant. 




Wash. 




Tunnels, copper steam. 




Turbidimeters, electric. 




Turbines, steam. 


Tumbuckles. 




Turners, cake. 






Turntables, microscope. 


*Tweezers, costing up to 25 cents. 
Twine: 
Cotton. 


*Tweezers, costing over 25 cents. 




Flax. 




Hemp. 




Jute. 




Linen. 






Tympans. 


ffetal. 




Rubber. 






Typewriters. 




Umbrellas. 


♦Unions, plumber's, costing up to 


*Unions, plumber's, costing over 


25 cents. 


25 cents. 




Ureometers. 




Urinals. 




Valises. 


♦Valves, costing up to 25 cents: 


*Valves, costing over 25 cents: 


Air, for radiators. 


Air, for radiators. 


Ammonia. 


Ammonia. 


Gate. 


Gate. 


Pump, rubber. 


Pump, rubber. 


Plumbing. 


Plumbing. 




Vanes. 




Vaporizers. 



128 



PROPERTY REGITLATTONS. 



Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Varnish : 
Duplicating machine. 
Lithographic. 
Photographic. 



Ventilators, glass. 
Vials, glass. 



Wafers, paper. 



Walks, plank. 



Washers. 

Wax: 

Floor. 

Sealing. 

White. 
Wedges: 

*Iron, costing up to 2'^ cents. 

*Steel, costing up to 2.5 cents. 

Wood. 



Vasculums. 
Vats. 
Vehicles. 
Ventilators, metal. 

Vignetters, photographic. 

^'iscosimeters. 

Vises: 

Machinist's. 

Pipe. 

Saw. 
Vulcanizers. 



Wagons: 
Drayage and express. 
Farm. 
Mail. 
Sprinkling. 

Wardrobes. 

Warmers, section micro. 



Watches. 



Wedges: 
*Iron, costing over 25 cents. 
*Steel, costing over 25 cents. 





Weeders: 




Hand. 




Horse. 


Weights: 


Weights: 


Paper, glass or metal. 


Balance and scale. 


Sash. 


Hitching. 


Spline. 






Weirs. 




Wheelbarrows. 


Wheels: 


Wheels: 


Buffing. 


Aluminum. 


Cutting, for pencil. 


Buffing. 


Sharpening machines. 


Measuring. 
Truck. 


Whetstones. 


Whips. 




Whistles. 


Wicking and wicks. 






Winches. 




Windlass and chain. 



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Expendable. 



Nonexpendable. 



Wire: 

Bronze, copper, and steel. 

Drawplate. 

Fence. 

Gauze. 

Lead-covered. 

Office or Insulated. 

Platinum. 

Telegraph. 

Telephone. 
Wood. 

Wrappers, paper. 



Zinc, bars and sheets. 



Workers, butter. 

Wrenches: 

Alligator. 

Anemometer. 

Chain. 

Monkey. 

Stillsori. 

Tap. 

Trimo. 
Wringers: 

Clothes. 

Mop, with bucket. 



Yokes, ox. 



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INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 



Paragraph. 

Abandonment of property by chief of field party 12 

Absence of officials or employees, transfer of property during 56 

Accountability: 

Individual 7 

Relief from 7 

When closed 57 

Acquisition of property by department 2 

Action: 

Upon death of official or employee in charge of property 58 

Upon discontinuance of field station 55 

Advertisements: 

Newspaper, authority for 9 

Sale of property 9 

Animal products, sale or exchange of 62 

Animals, sale or exchange of 62 

Annual inspection of property 27 

Annual return of nonexpendable property 46 

Apparatus, scientific, sale or exchange of 61 

Army quartermaster, shipments by 75 

Atlantic Ocean, shipments via 78 

.Articles: 

Condemned, use of, in repairs 21 

Destroyed, credit for 51 

Of personal nature 49 

Audit, quarterly, Supply Division 28 

Authority: 

Advertisements, newspaper 9 

Condemnation of property 20 

Sale or other disposition of property 9 

Transfers between field stations 26 

Authorizations affecting property returns, to be filed with 54 

Bills of lading 71 

Blue prints, sale of 65 

Board of survey, special, when appointed 8-9 

Bond-aided or land-grant railroads, cash payments not to be made. 84 

Bonds, covering expenses of exhibits at fairs, etc 32 

131 



132 INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

Books and periodicals: Paragraph. 

Exchange of 64 

Return of, to library 34 

Buildings 14 

Bureaus: 

Inspection of property 27 

Receipt of property in 3 

Records of property 6 

Sale of property between, prohibited 25 

Transfer of property between 25 

Cable lines 14 

Camera l)Oxes, lenses, and shut t ers 33 

Camp equipment, abandonment of 12 

Card index, experiment-station literature, sale of 69 

Cash payments, when not to lie made 84 

Certificate regarding property lost, stolen, damaged, or destroyed. 8 

Certificate of disposition of property 23 

Classification of property: 

Determination of 36 

To be shown on invoices and receipt s 36 

Clerk, properl y, designation of 3 

Closing of accountability 57 

Condemnation of property: 

Authority for 20 

Property having no sale value IS 

Condemned property: 

Destroyed, credit for 51 

Destruction of 9 

Personal possession of 22 

Purchase of, by employees 24 

Use of, in repairs 21 

Continued al^sence of ofTieial or employee, transfer of property 

during 56 

Conversion of property to personal use 13 

Cotton standards, sale of 70 

Count of property 52 

Credit for property abandoned, sold, or destroyed at field 

station 51 

Damaged property: 

Procedure regarding 8 

Relief from responsiltility 7 

Dealers: 

Shipments from 76 

Use of penalty envelopes or labels by 89 



INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 133 

Paragraph. 

Death of official in charge of property, action upon 58 

Definition of terms 1 

Delayed shipments, reporting of 82 

Delivery of property at field stations 83 

Deposit of money recovered 8 

Destroyed property: 

Credit for 51 

Procedure regarding 8 

Relief from responsibility 7 

Destruction of property: 

Condemned property 9 

Property ordered destroyed 23 

Discontinuance of station, action upon 55 

Disposition of property: 

Certificate of 23 

Property ordered destroyed 23 

Sale of property 9, 10, 12 

Documents, surplus, exchange of 63 

Duplicate invoices and receipts 42 

Duplicating machines, sale or exchange of 61 

Employees: 

Designated to receive property in bureaus 3 

Field, freight shipments between 74 

Misuse of property by 30 

Personal possession of condemned property 22 

Purchase of condemned property by 24 

Purchase of property from, prohibited 31 

Equipment, camp, abandonment of 12 

Equipment and supplies, requisitions for 44 

Errors in property returns 53 

Exchange: 

Books and periodicals 64 

Property, for supplies or work, prohibited 16 

Or sale of property authorized by law 61-70 

Surplus documents 63 

Exhibits at expositions, fairs, etc 32 

Expendable property: 

Classification of 5 

Invoices and receipts for 37 

List of. (See Appendix B.) 

Records of 6 

Expenses, exliibits at expositions, etc., bonds to cover 32 

Experiment station literatiu-e, card index, sale of 69 

Expositions, fairs, etc., exhibits at 32 



134 INDEX TO PROPERTY REGLTLATIONS. 

Express: Paragraph. 

Shipments by 86 

Shipments to and from Washington 87 

Valuation of shipments 88 

Fairs, expositions, etc., exhibits at 32 

Fees, storage 15 

Fences 14 

Field (general): 

Abandonment, sale or disposition of property by chief of field 

party 1- 

Employees, freight shipments between 74 

Purchases, invoices of 43 

Sale by one bureau to another in field prohibited 9 

Storage of property 15 

Transfer of property between bureaus in field 9 

Transfer of property from one branch of a bureau to another in 

field 9 

Field (stations): 

Delivery of property at S3 

Discontinuance of station, act ion upon 55 

Duplicate invoices and receipts covering transfers between 42 

Property abandoned, sold, or destroyed, credit for 51 

Transfer of property dm-ing continued absence 56 

Transfer of property between 26 

Final retmn of property 59 

Final settlement 60 

Forest maps, sale of 65 

Freight shipments between employees in the field 74 

Household effects, transfer of 85 

Identification of property 29 

Improvements, permanent 14 

Inaccessibility of property H 

Index, card, agricultural literatvire, sale of 69 

Individual accoimtability 7 

Instructions regarding shipments 81 

Inspection: 

Bureau property 27 

Annual, by Office of Inspection 27 

Records and property of Supply Division 28 

Invoices: 

Attached to property returns 40 

Duplicate, transfers between field stations 42 



INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 135 

Invoices— ContiBued. Para.qraph. 

Expendable property 37 

Field purchases 43 

Nonexpendable property 38 

Property taken up without 41 

Signing of 7 

Verification of 39 

When made 35 

Lading, bills of 71 

Lands 14 

Land-grant or bond-aided raih'oads, cash paj-ments not to be made 

to 84 

Lantern slides, sale of 65 

Laws governing property accountability {See Appendix A.) 

Legal authority for sale or exchange of property 61-70 

Lenses, photographic 33 

Library: 

Exchange of books and periodicals 64 

Return of books and periodicals 34 

Literature, experiment station, card index, sale of 69 

Live stock, exchange or sale of 62 

Lost property, certificate regarding 8 

Machines, type\vriting and duplicating, sale or exchange of 61 

Maps and publications of Weather Bureau 67 

Maps, forest, sale of 65 

Marking and packing of shipments 74 

Merchants, use of penalty envelopes or labels by 89 

Methods of shipment 72 

Microscopic specimens, sale of 68 

Misuse of property 30 

Money recovered, deposit of 8 

Naval stores, sale of samples 68 

Newspaper advertisements, authority for 9 

Nonexpendable property: 

Aimual return of 46 

Classification of 3 

Invoices and receipts for 38 

List of. {See Appendix B.) 

Not to be dropped from returns 48 

Record of 6 

Notification of placing of pm-chase orders 45 

Official cotton standards, sale of 70 

Official in charge of property, action upon death of 58 

Orders, purchase, notification of placing 45 



136 INDEX TO PROPEETY REGULATIONS. 

Paragraph. 

Packing and marking of shipments 73 

Pathological and zoological specimens, sale of 66 

Penalty envelopes or labels, use of, in makmg shipments. 89 

Periodicals and books: 

Exchange of 64 

Return of, to Library 34 

Permanent Board of Survey 9 

Personal: 

Possession of condenmed property 22 

Property, transfer of 85 

Use of property 13 

Photographic lenses 33 

Porto Rico, shipments to 79 

Possession of condenmed property 22 

Prints, photographic, sale of 65 

Private sale of property 9 

Products, animal, sale or exchange of 62 

Property: 

A bandoned, credit for 51 

Abandonment of, by chief of field party 12 

Accountability, individual 7 

Accountability, laws governing. {See Appendix A.) 

Accountability, when closed 57 

Acquisition of, by department 2 

Advertisement of sale 9 

Annual inspection of 27 

Articles of a personal nature 49 

As payment for supplies or work 16 

At inaccessible places 11 

Authority for conderrmation 20 

At substations, return of 47 

Bureau inspection 27 

Bureau records 6 

Class to be indicated on invoices and receipts 36 

Classification of 5 

Clerk, designation of 3 

Condemnation of IS 

Condemned, destruction of 9 

Condemned, personal possession of 23 

Condemned, purchase of, by employees 24 

Condemned, use of, in repairs 21 

Conversion of, to personal use 13 

Count to be made 52 

Damaged, relief from responsibility for 7 



INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS, 137 

Property— Continued. Paragraph. 

Delivery of, at field stations 83 

Destroyed, credit for 51 

Destroyed, relief from responsibility for 9 

Destruction of, after condemnation 7 

Destruction of, by chief of field party 12 

Disposition of 9 

Dropping of, from retui-ns 8 

Duplicating machines, etc 61 

Employees designated to receive 3 

Errors in returns 53 

Exchange of, for supplies or work prohibited 16 

Expendable, invoices and receipts for 37 

Expendable, list of. {See Appendix B.) 

Final returns of property 59 

Final settlement 60 

Identification of 29 

Inspection of 27 

Invoices, verificat ion of 39 

Invoices and receipts, when made 35 

Invoices and receipts, class to be indicated 36 

Invoices and receipts, to be attached to property returns 40 

Lost, relief from responsibility for 7 

Misuse of 30 

Nonexpendable, annual return of 46 

Nonexpendable, invoices and receipts for 38 

Nonexpendable, list of. (See Appendix B.) 

Nonexpendable, not to be dropped from returns 48 

Not to be given as payment for supplies or work 16 

Ordered destroyed, disposition of 23 

Personal possession of 22 

Private sale of 9 

Pmchase of, from Government employees prohibited 31 

Receipts and invoices, when made 35 

Receipts of, in bureaus 3 

Receipting for 7 

Recover^/^ of value 8 

Reissue of 21 

Requisitions for purchase of 44 

Responsibility for 4 

Returns, annual, nonexpendable property 46 

Returns, authorization affeciing, to be filed with 54 

Returns, errors in 53 

Returns, final 59 

Returns, invoices andf receipts to be attached 40 



138 INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 

Property— Continued. Paragraph. 

Returns, property at substations 47 

Sale of, authorized by law 10 

Sale of, between bureaus, prohibited 25 

Sale of, by one bureau to another in the field, proliibited 9 

Sale of, by chief of field party 12 

Sale or exchange autliorized by law 62 

Sale or other disposition 9 

Scientific apparatus 61 

Shortage, report of 51 

Sold at field station, credit for 51 

Stolen, relief from responsibility for 7 

Storage of 15 

Substation, return of 47 

Supply division, inspection of 28 

Surplus documents, exchange of 63 

Taken up without invoice 41 

Transfer and reissue 9 

Transfer between field stations 26 

Transfer, during continued absence of official or employee 56 

Transler, field stations, duplicate invoices and receipts 42 

Transfer from one bureau to anotlrer in Washington 25 

Typewriters, duplicating machines, etc 61 

Unserviceable, report of 17 

Unserviceable, only to be condemned 19 

Use of, in payment for supplies or work prohibited 16 

Value of, to be recovered 8 

Publications and maps of Weatlaer Bureau, sale oi 67 

Purchase: 

Condemned property, by employees 24 

Field, invoices of 43 

From employees, prohibited 31 

Order, notification of placing 45 

Property, by employees 24 

Quartermaster, United States Army, shipments by 75 

Railroads, bond-aided or land-grant, cash payments not to be 

made to -^4 

Receipt of property in bureaus 3 

Receipts: 

Attached to property returns 40 

Duplicate, transfers between stations 46 

For expendable property 37 

For nonexpendable property 38 

Signing of 7 



INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 139 

Receipts— Continued. Paragraph. 

Verification of 39 

When furnished 35 

Record of shipments 80 

Records: 

Btireau 6 

Expendable property 6 

Nonexpendable property 6 

Supply Division, inspection of 28 

Relief from responsibility 7 

Repairs, use of condemned articles in 21 

Reports: 

Delayed shipments 82 

Shortage 50 

Unserviceable property 17 

Responsibility: 

For property 4 

Relief from 7 

Requisition for supplies and equipment 44 

Returns: 

Annual, nonexpendable property 46 

Errors In 54 

Final 59 

Nonexpendable property not to be dropped from 48 

Property, at substations 47 

Property, authorizations affecting, to be fded with 54 

Property, final 59 

Property, invoices and receipts to be attached 40 

Sale of property: 

Animals and animal products 62 

Authority for 9 

Authorized by law, no action by board of survey required 10 

Between bureaus prohibited 25 

Blue prints 65 

Card index of Experiment Station literature 69 

Cotton standards 70 

Forest maps 65 

Lantern slides 65 

Maps and publications of Weather Bureau 67 

Microscopic specimens 68 

Prints, photographic 65 

Samples (pure sugar, naval stores, etc.) 68 

Transparencies 65 

Sale or exchange of property 61-70 



140 INDEX TO PEOPERTY REGULATIONS. 

Paragraph. 

Samples, sale of 68 

Scientific apparatus, sale or exchange of 61 

Settlement, final 60 

Shipments : 

Bills of ladmg 71 

By quartermaster, United States Army 75 

Cash payments, when not made 84 

Delayed, report of 82 

Delivery of property at field stations 83 

Express 86 

Express, to and from Washington 87 

Express, valuation of '.... 88 

Freight, between employees in the field 74 

From dealers 76 

Household effects 85 

Instructions to be observed 81 

Methods of shipment 72 

Packing and marking 73 

Penalty labels or envelopes 89 

Personal property 85 

Porto Rico 79 

Record of 80 

Washington 77 

Via Atlantic Ocean 78 

Shortage, report of 50 

Shutters, camera 33 

Slides, lantern, sale of 65 

Special board of survey, when appointed 8-9 

Specimens, sale of: 

Microscopic 68 

Naval stores 68 

Pathological and zoological 66 

Sugar, pure 68 

Standards, cotton, sale of 70 

Stations, field: 

Delivery of property at 83 

Discontmuance, action vipon 55 

Duplicate invoices and receipts covering transfers between 42 

Transfers of property between 26 

Transfer of property during continued absence of officials and 

employees. 56 

Stolen property : 

Relief from responsibility for 7 

Procedure regarding .' 8 



INDEX TO PROPERTY REGULATIONS. 141 

Paragraph. 

Storage fees 15 

Stores, naval, sale of samples 68 

Substations, returns of property at 47 

Sugar, pure, sale of samples 08 

Supplies, property not to be given in payment for 16 

Supplies and equipment, requisitions for 44 

Supply Division, inspection of records and property 28 

Surplus documents, exchange of 63 

Survey, board of: 

Permanent 9 

Special, when appointed 8-9 

Telegraph lines 14 

Terms, definition of 1 

Transfers: 

Between bureaus in Washington 25 

Between field stations 26 

Between field stations, dux)licate invoices and receipts 42 

Field stations, during continued absence of officials and em- 
ployees 56 

Household effects 85 

Personal property 85 

Transparencies, sale of 65 

Typewriters, sale or exchange of 61 

Unserviceable property: 

Condemnation of 19 

Report of 17 

Value of property, recovery of 8 

Valuation of express shipments 88 

Verification of invoices 39 

Washington, express shipments to and from 77, 87 

Weather Bureau, sale of maps and publications 67 

Zoological and pathological specimens, sale of 66 

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